“Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara”
Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising
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“Weep not for the dead with a fruitless recalling,
Their soul on the wings of the morning hath fled;
Mourn rather for those whom yet life is enthralling,
Ah! weep for the living—weep not for the dead.”
All from The Vow of the Peacock - Second Canto
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
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— so brave and strong, so young —
the horses of Achilles began to weep”
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The Horses of Achilles http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=134&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Context: When they saw Patroklos dead<br>— so brave and strong, so young —<br>the horses of Achilles began to weep;<br>their immortal nature was upset deeply<br>by this work of death they had to look at.
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Scyrii, Frag. 510.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
