Comrades and friends! for ours is strength Has brooked the … - John Conington

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Comrades and friends! for ours is strength
Has brooked the test of woes;
O worse-scarred hearts! these wounds at length
The Gods will heal, like those.

John Conington

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John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar.

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Why reel I thus, confused and blind?
What madness mars my sober mind?

At Orcus' portals hold their lair
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Foul Penury, and Fears that kill,
And Hunger, counsellor of ill,
A ghastly presence they:
Suffering and Death the threshold keep,
And with them Death's blood-brother, Sleep.

Who hopes by strange variety to please,
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