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Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the read more
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou are gone, and for ever!
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.
Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father,
while the loss of his inheritance might read more
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father,
while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
[Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che
la perdita del patrimonie.]
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.
But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.
But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.