Epilogue Amor Mortis Conturbat Me
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YOUR friends have known me, I have not failed them, When pain and terror and life assailed them I drew them close in my arms and haled them Home to my everlasting rest. Their souls are free and exempt forever From hope and passion and vain endeavour, Whom all eternity shall not sever From dreamless sleep on my cool soft breast. Their shells and frosts and unending trouble Are ceased and vanishéd like a bubble, And lo, I have rewarded them double For all their labour and all their pain. For the soul from being at last reposes, And the open secret my door discloses Is fairer than God or women or roses: O come, you shall not return again. J. B. S. HALDANE.
Principal Books Used
Cæsar, “The Gallic Wars”; Rice Holmes, “Cæsar’s Conquest of Gaul” and “Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Cæsar”; Ferrero, “Rise and Decline of Rome”; Camille Julian, “Histoire de la Gaule” and “Vercingétorix”; Déchelette, “Manuel d’Archeologie”; Holder, “Alt-Celtischer Sprachschatz”; and the British Museum’s Guide to the Antiquities of the Early Iron Age. And I am most grateful to Mr. Rice Holmes for his advice and criticisms, even though I have not always adopted them. The two towns, Rodec and Curdun, are not real. Also, Britons shaved.
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
had longer for=> had longed for {pg 54}
Meromic feel asleep=> Meromic fell asleep {pg 163}
He frowned, intend on the lines=> He frowned, intent on the lines {pg 165}
and that Calthane=> and that Caltane {pg 189}
dough on to the girdle=> dough on to the griddle {pg 204}
Æmelia interested herself=> Æmilia interested herself {pg 261}
get on with your work on you=> get on with your work or you {pg 271}