"'Whom the gods love die young,' was said of yore, And many deaths do they escape by this."
— Don Juan (Byron)

January 1, 1970

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Stanza 12; compare: Menander, [Epigramatic] Sentences, 425 and The Double Deceiver, frag. 4; "The good die first, / And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust / Burn to the socket", William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book i