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Poems (Duer)/Lines for the Skull at the Feast

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4525086Poems — Lines for the Skull at the FeastAlice Duer and Caroline Duer
LINES FOR THE SKULL AT THE FEAST.
  Drink and forget to reason:   Man's life is but a season, And pleasure's lips are breathless, ere youth is past its prime.   The rose-red love shall linger   Till care has touched its finger, But only death is deathless, along the road of time.
C. D.