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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div xml:lang="eng" type="translation" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0893.phi001.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" n="2" subtype="book"><div type="textpart" n="17" met="ab" subtype="poem"><lg><l n="5">Ah! should I lose one half my soul</l><l n="6">Untimely, can the other stay</l><l n="7">Behind it?  Life that is not whole,</l><l n="8">Is <emph>that</emph> as sweet?  The self-same day</l><l n="9">Shall crush us twain; no idle oath</l><l n="10">Has Horace sworn; whene'er you go,</l><l n="11">We both will travel, travel both</l><l n="12">The last dark journey down below.</l><l n="13">No, not Chimaera's fiery breath,</l><l n="14">Nor Gyas, could he rise again,</l><l n="15">Shall part us; Justice, strong as death,</l><l n="16">So wills it; so the Fates ordain.</l><l n="17">Whether 'twas Libra saw me born</l><l n="18">Or angry Scorpio, lord malign</l><l n="19">Of natal hour, or Capricorn,</l><l n="20">The tyrant of the western brine,</l><l n="21">Our planets sure with concord strange</l><l n="22">Are blended.  You by Jove's blest power</l><l n="23">Were snatch'd from out the baleful range</l><l n="24">Of Saturn, and the evil hour</l></lg></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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