It was a fool who said, for other fools to hear,
That death has made this world a never healing sore!
As long as we still live, death did not yet appear;
And when it does arrive, we're in this world no more!
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То сказано глупцом и признано глупцами,
Что будто смерть для нас творит ужасным свет!
Пока на свете мы, она еще не с нами;
Когда ж пришла она, то нас на свете нет!