~Aesop, 1480~
A poor man, being very ill and getting worse, promised the gods to sacrifice to them one hundred oxen if they saved him from death. Continue reading
The Cheat (Fable 55)
15th century
Death, An Appointment
To love here on Earth,
Is indeed to prepare the way for sorrow,
for all who love must be parted,
by the great appointment.
~ From Sermons of Consolation by F.W. P. Greenwood, 1847 ~
