What is Life?
And what is Life?--An hour-glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still repeated dream; Its length?--A minute's pause,...
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And what is Life? --An hour-glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still repeated dream; Its length? --A minute's pause, a moment's thought; And happiness? -A bubble on the stream, That in the act of seizing shrinks to nought. What are vain Hopes? --The puffing gale of morn, That of its charms divests the dewy lawn, And robs each floweret of its gem,--and dies; A cobweb hiding disappointment's thorn, Which stings more keenly through the thin disguise.…
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