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 DAY DEATH

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = On all important time, thro' ev'ry age, Tho' much, and warm, the wise have urged; the man Is yet unborn, who duly weighs an hour, "I've lost a day"—the prince who nobly cried Had been an emperor without his crown; Of Rome? say rather, lord of human race. Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 97. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bobart) The spirit walks of every day deceased. Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 180. DEATH | seealso = (See also {{sc|Immortality, Mortality}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. Abd-el-Kader. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 163 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = This is the last of earth! I am content. John Quincy Adams. His Last Words. Josiah Quincy—Life of John Quincy Adams. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 163 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Call no man happy till he is dead. ^Eschylus^—Agamemnon. 938. Earliest reference. Also in Sophocles—Trachinioe, and CEdipus Tyrannus. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 163 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But when the sun in all his state, Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through glory's morning gate, And walked in Paradise. James Aldrich—A Death Bed. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gilder, Hood}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land, Two hurrying shapes met face to face And bade each other stand. "And who are you?" "cried one, a-gape, Shuddering in the glimmering light. "I know not," said the second shape, "I only died last night." T. B. Ajldrich—Identity The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory—death. William Alexander—The Icebound Ship. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic =  | page = 163 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which you must travel in the steps they trod. Aristophanes—Fragment. II. Trans, by Cumberland. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Jonson)