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Fortunately for me, by and by, there will be an end of all wondering, and you can write above my tomb, 'Implora pace'! The idea of commencing a new life is to me, horrible, I prefer 'Nirvana' or nothingness. Never have I read truer words than those of Byron,
Yet I was born where men are proud to be, Not without cause: and should I leave behind Th'immortal island of the sage and free, And seek me out a home by a remoter sea? "Some of the epitaphs at Ferrara pleased me more than the more splendid monuments of Bologna; for instance 'Martini Luigi Implora pace. 'Lucrezia Picini Implora eterna quiete." Can anything be more full of pathos?
There is all the helplessness, and humble hope, and death-like prayer that can arise from the grave 'implora pace. "I hope, whoever may survive me, and shall see me put in the foreigner's burying-ground at the Lido, within the fortress by the Adriatic, will see these two words, and no more, put over me. I trust they won't think of pickling and bringing me home to Clod, or Blunderbuss Hall.
After all these years of controversy, after all these battles, bravely fought and nobly won, you might write with truth upon this moveless mound of woollens the pathetic words from Père la Chaise: Implora Pace. But no more at present, for land is in sight, and in my next you shall hear how we found it, and what we saw at Nassau.
There is all the helplessness and humble hope, and deathlike prayer, that can arise from the grave 'implora pace. I hope, whoever may survive me, and shall see me put in the foreigners' burying-ground at the Lido, within the fortress by the Adriatic, will see those two words, and no more, put over me. I trust they won't think of "pickling, and bringing me home to clod or Blunderbuss Hall."
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