I have pleasures and passions, but the joy of life is gone.

I am going under, the Morgue yawns for me.

I go and look at my zinc bed there.

After all I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

But I must dine once with you first.
Ever yours, OSCAR WILDE.
FOOTNOTES: [39] Oscar told me this story; but as it only concerns Lord Alfred Douglas, and throws no new light on Oscar's character, I don't use it.
[40] This is extravagant condemnation of Lord Alfred Douglas' want of education; for he certainly knew a great deal about the poetic art even then and he has since acquired a very considerable knowledge of "Elizabethan Song." [41] Whoever wishes to understand this bitter allusion should read his father's letter to Lord Alfred Douglas transcribed in the first volume.
The Marquis of Queensberry doesn't hesitate to hint why his son was "sent down" from Oxford.
[42] Cfr.