O love! O love!
Be with us always
We who will perish salute death
Life alone goes on!
• "O' Caritas" (co-written with Andreas Toumazis and Jeremy Taylor)
Be with us always
We who will perish salute death
Life alone goes on!
• "O' Caritas" (co-written with Andreas Toumazis and Jeremy Taylor)
“
O caritas, O caritas
nobis semper sit amor
mos perituri mortem salutamus — ah, ah
sola resurgit vita
— Cat Stevens
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "O caritas, O caritas
nobis semper sit amor
mos perituri mortem salutamus — ah, ah
sola resurgit vita" in the context of "O love! O love!
Be with us always
We who will perish salute death
Life alone goes on!
• "O' Caritas" (co-written with Andreas Toumazis and Jeremy Taylor)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Cat Stevens" (Song lyrics, Catch Bull at Four (1972): The name of this album is derived from the fourth of the Ten Bulls (or Ox Herding Pictures) of Zen Buddhism)
The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
About Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21 July 1948), also known by his stage names Cat Stevens and Yusuf, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and convert to Islam.
About Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21 July 1948), also known by his stage names Cat Stevens and Yusuf, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and convert to Islam.
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