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Art is long, life is short
Let's please our time, to posterity....
To wait for a century or two: what does the interval matter;
Let us leave to the future our Immortality...?
We will not be there anymore, but who knows, under the slab,

Will we rejoice that Time dedicates
Some pleasant aspects in our memory;
Judged by our nephews, but in absentia,
Since only our spirits can warn us.

Brothers in poetry, let us plead common cause,
For if our...