Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"

This also became Conrad's epitaph."/>

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" Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:

"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"

This also became Conrad's epitaph. "

Joseph Conrad , The Rover


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