What Leave the Fates Decree
To Hades, black as ink, our souls shall sink,
And all our lives are gone within a wink!
Yet fleeting! E’er so fleeting! Though it be,
So well we love what leave the Fates decree.
Copyright © Jerrold Prothero | Year Posted 2025
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