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Gargoyles
Gargoyles (1906), PDF p. 56
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DIOGENES.
‘* ALL things are good,” exclaimed the boy.
Who taste the sweetmeat find it cloy.
‘* All things are ill,” the dotard sang.
Who stir the serpent feel the fang.
‘*All is a dream!” the wise man spake.
Who grasp the bubble find it break.
Aye, to all three the saga saith:
There is no joy in life but death.
There is this limit set to lust:
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
O fools and blind that sickly strive
To amass, to glut yourselves, to swive,
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