Bartholomew Dowling

Bartholomew Dowling (1823 – November 20, 1863) was an Irish-born author.

Quotes

• We meet neath the sounding rafter,
  And the walls around are bare;
  As they shout back our peals of laughter
  It seems that the dead are there.
  Ho! stand to your glasses steady!
  'T is all we have left to prize.
  A cup to the dead already,—
  Hurrah for the next that dies!
  • The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); alternately attributed to Alfred Domett.

• Who dreads to the dust returning?
  Who shrinks from the sable shore,
  Where the high and haughty yearning
  Of the soul can sting no more?
  • The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).