I am young to speak so largely, but it shall be as I say.

Oh! this parting is more cruel than death.

Would that we were asleep and forgotten among men.

Yet it is best that you should go, for if you stayed what could we be to each other while my father lives, and may he live long!' 'Sleep and forgetfulness will come soon enough, Lily; none must await them for very long.

Meanwhile we have our lives to live.