"Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns."
— Loss

January 1, 1970

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William Cowper, Conversation (1782), line 357. Referring to the story told by Pancirollus and others, of the lamp which burned for fifteen hundred years in the tomb of Tullia, daughter of Cicero.