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Agile as a tiger
A youthful stag
Death should never claimed him
Time should never hurt
Anything so alert
Balance, Power, Strength
Anyone so dominant
Should be left to play
A knight so prominent
A radiant smile; Remember
Unblemished - a fearless one
I whisper
God bless him.
---Charles Noble
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Ave Atque Vale
By ways remote and distant waters sped,
Brother, to thy sad grave-side we have come,
That we may give the last gifts to the dead,
And vainly parley with thine ashes dumb:
Since she who now bestows and now denies
Hath taken thee, hapless brother, from our eyes.
But lo! these gifts, the heirlooms of past years,
Are made sad things to grace thy coffin shell,
Take them, all drenchèd with a sisters' and brother's tears,
And, brother, for all time, hail and farewell!
-----A translation from Catullus, Carmen CI.
Paul Swanson -1967
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