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  • Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail;
    Enjoy thy shining hour of sun;
    We dance along Death's icy brink,
    But is the dance less full of fun?

    Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law”