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THE QUATRAINS OF
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Love, for ever doth heaven's wheel design
To take away thy precious life, and mine;
Sit we upon this turf, 'twill not be long
Ere turf shall grow upon my dust, and thine!
391.
When life has fled, and we rest in the tomb,
They'll place a pair of bricks to mark our tomb;
And, a while after, mould our dust to bricks,
To furnish forth some other person's tomb!
392.
Yon palace, towering to the welkin blue,
Where kings did bow them down, and homage do,
I saw a ringdove on its arches perched,
And thus she made complaint, "Coo Coo, Coo, Coo!"
390. L. N. B.
391. L. N. A. I.
392. C. L. N. A. I. J. Mr. Binning found this quatrain inscribed on the ruins of Persepolis. Fitzgerald. Coo (Kú) means "Where are they?"
