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Scilicet est aliud, quod nos cogatque regatque Majus, et in proprias ducat mortalia leges." Indeed there is a greater power which directs and rules us, and brings mortal affairs under its own laws."
When these adieus were terminated, I avoided as much as I could any other leave-takings, which affected me too much, and wrote to the friends whom I quitted, taking care that my letters should not reach them until several days after my departure. * Saepe mihi dubiam traxitisententia mentem, Curarent Superi terras, an nullus inesset Rector, et incerto fluerent mortalia casu.
"Si genus humanum et mortalia temnitis arma, At sperate Deos memores fandi atque nefandi."
He died not long afterwards, and now he lies buried in Allhallows Church, in London, with his tomb turned towards the east, away from the green vale of Clwyd and the mountains of his native Wales; but his book is the great repertory of the literature of his nation, the comparative study of languages and literatures gains every day more followers, and no one of these followers, at home or abroad, touches Welsh literature without paying homage to the Denbighshire peasant's name; if the bard's glory and his own are still matter of moment to him, si quid mentem mortalia tangunt, he may be satisfied.
"I'm shutting up shop unless anybody cares to try one last cold hand " He caught the eye of the girl at the piano and smiled pallidly. "'Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames! Also I have them all scared to death, Miss Carew the volunteer army of our country is taking water."
"Sunt lacrymæ rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt," are words in which Sainte-Beuve has found the secret of the Æneid; they are at any rate the key to the character of Æneas. Like the poet of our own days, he longs for "the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still." He stands utterly apart from those epical heroes "that delight in war."
Science, indeed, does us one good office in instructing us exactly as to the dimensions of evils, "Curis acuens mortalia corda!" 'Twere pity that any part of their greatness should escape our sense and knowledge. 'Tis certain that for the most part the preparation for death has administered more torment than the thing itself.
Sunt lachrymæ rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt. Oh! is there a man's heart that thinks without pity of those long months and years of slow-wasting ignominy; of thy birth soft-cradled, the winds of Heaven not to visit thy face too roughly, thy foot to light on softness, thy eye on splendour; and then of thy death, or hundred deaths, to which the guillotine and Fouquier Tinville's judgment was but the merciful end?
Eugénie had closed the book, and her eyes, as they looked out upon the astonishing light and shade of the terrace and its surroundings, had filled unconsciously with tears, not so much for Marie Antoinette, as for all griefs! for this duped, tortured, struggling life of ours for the 'mortalia' which grip all hearts, which none escape pain, and separation, and remorse, hopes deceived, and promise mocked, decadence in one's self, change in others, and that iron gentleness of death which closes all.
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