Bartholomew Dowling. 1823-1863. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Bartholomew Dowling. (1823–1863)

    We meet neath the sounding rafter,
  And the walls around are bare;
As they shout back our peals of laughter
  It seems that the dead are there.
Ho! stand to your glasses steady!
  ’T is all we have left to prize.
A cup to the dead already,—
  Hurrah for the next that dies! 1

The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India.

    Who dreads to the dust returning?
  Who shrinks from the sable shore,
Where the high and haughty yearning
  Of the soul can sting no more?

The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India.

Note 1.
Often attributed to Alfred Domett. [back]

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