Note 24 — III THE LAST CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC (continued 2)
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Suns may set and rise again; for us, when once our brief day has waned, there is one long night to be slept through. Give me a thousand kisses, and then a hundred, and another thousand, and a hundred to follow yea, and another thousand—and yet a hundred! (Carmen, V. 4-9)