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MONTHS (unclassified)
Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth,
Thirty days to each affix;
Every other thirty-one,
Except the second month alone.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one
Excepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Thirty days hath November,
April, June, and September,
February hath xxviii alone,
And all the rest have xxxi.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February eight-and-twenty all alone,
And all the rest have thirty-one:
Unless that leap-year doth combine,
And give to February twenty-nine.
MONTREAL
Oh God! Oh Montreal!
MONUMENTS
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride,
And wonder of the world, whose spiky top
Has wounded the thick cloud.
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
But monuments themselves memorials need.
You shall not pile, with servile toil,
Your monuments upon my breast,
Nor yet within the common soil
Lay down the wreck of power to rest,
Where man can boast that he has trod
On him that was "the scourge of God."
He made him a hut, wherein he did put
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
O poor Robinson Crusoe!
Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.
Exegi monumentum sere perennius
Regalique situ pyramidum altius,
Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
Possit diruere aut innumerabilis
Annorum series et fuga temporum.
Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei
Vitabit Libitinam.
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.
Incisa notis marmora puhlicis.
Per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis
Post mortem ducibus.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
Ca-lo tegitur qui non habet urnam.
He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
Thou, in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thyself a life-long monument.
For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.
Towers of silence.
Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante sit'i les vous contemplent.
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
