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Vanity of vanities all is vanity Solomon	A
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What are life's joys and gains	B
What pleasures crowd its ways	C
That man should take such pains	B
To seek them all his days	C
Sift this untoward strife	D
On which thy mind is bent	E
See if this chaff of life	D
Is worth the trouble spent	E
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Is pride thy heart's desire	F
Is power thy climbing aim	G
Is love thy folly's fire	F
Is wealth thy restless game	G
Pride power love wealth and all	H
Time's touchstone shall destroy	I
And like base coin prove all	H
Vain substitutes for joy	I
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Dost think that pride exalts	J
Thyself in other's eyes	K
And hides thy folly's faults	J
Which reason will despise	K
Dost strut and turn and stride	L
Like walking weathercocks	K
The shadow by thy side	L
Becomes thy ape and mocks	K
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Dost think that power's disguise	K
Can make thee mighty seem	M
It may in folly's eyes	K
But not in worth's esteem	M
When all that thou canst ask	N
And all that she can give	O
Is but a paltry mask	N
Which tyrants wear and live	P
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Go let thy fancies range	Q
And ramble where they may	R
View power in every change	Q
And what is the display	R
The country magistrate	S
The meanest shade in power	F
To rulers of the state	S
The meteors of an hour	F
	-
View all and mark the end	T
Of every proud extreme	M
Where flattery turns a friend	T
And counterfeits esteem	M
Where worth is aped in show	U
That doth her name purloin	V
Like toys of golden glow	U
That's sold for copper coin	V
	-
Ambition's haughty nod	W
With fancies may deceive	X
Nay tell thee thou'rt a god	W
And wilt thou such believe	X
Go bid the seas be dry	Y
Go hold earth like a ball	H
Or throw thy fancies by	Y
For God can do it all	H
	-
Dost thou possess the dower	Z
Of laws to spare or kill	A2
Call it not heavenly power	F
When but a tyrant's will	A2
Know what a God will do	B2
And know thyself a fool	C2
Nor tyrant like pursue	B2
Where He alone should rule	C2
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O put away thy pride	L
Or be ashamed of power	F
That cannot turn aside	L
The breeze that waves a flower	F
Or bid the clouds be still	A2
Though shadows they can brave	D2
Thy poor power mocking will	A2
Then make not man a slave	D2
	-
Dost think when wealth is won	A
Thy heart has its desire	F
Hold ice up to the sun	A
And wax before the fire	F
Nor triumph oer the reign	E2
Which they so soon resign	F2
In this world's ways they gain	E2
Insurance safe as thine	F2
	-
Dost think life's peace secure	G2
In house and in land	H2
Go read the fairy lure	G2
To twist a cord in sand	H2
Lodge stones upon the sky	Y
Hold water in a sieve	O
Nor give such tales the lie	Y
And still thine own believe	X
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Whoso with riches deals	K
And thinks peace bought and sold	I2
Will find them slipping eels	K
That slide the firmest hold	I2
Though sweet as sleep with health	J2
Thy lulling luck may be	K2
Pride may oerstride thy wealth	J2
And check prosperity	K2
	-
Dost think that beauty's power	F
Life sweetest pleasure gives	K
Go pluck the summer flower	F
And see how long it lives	K
Behold the rays glide on	L2
Along the summer plain	E2
Ere thou canst say 'they're gone '	-
And measure beauty's reign	E2
	-
Look on the brightest eye	Y
Nor teach it to be proud	M2
View but the clearest sky	Y
And thou shalt find a cloud	M2
Nor call each face ye meet	N2
An angel's cause it's fair	O2
But look beneath your feet	N2
And think of what they are	P2
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Who thinks that love doth live	P
In beauty's tempting show	U
Shall find his hopes ungive	P
And melt in reason's thaw	Q2
Who thinks that pleasure lies	K
In every fairy bower	F
Shall oft to his surprise	K
Find poison in the flower	F
	-
Dost lawless passions grasp	R2
Judge not thou deal'st in joy	I
Its flowers but hide the asp	R2
Thy revels to destroy	I
Who trusts an harlot's smile	S2
And by her wiles are led	T2
Plays with a sword the while	S2
Hung dropping oer his head	T2
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Dost doubt my warning song	U2
Then doubt the sun gives light	V2
Doubt truth to teach thee wrong	U2
And wrong alone as right	V2
And live as lives the knave	P
Intrigue's deceiving guest	W2
Be tyrant or be slave	P
As suits thy ends the best	W2
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Or pause amid thy toils	K
For visions won and lost	X2
And count the fancied spoils	K
If eer they quit the cost	Y2
And if they still possess	K
Thy mind as worthy things	K
Plat straws with bedlam Bess	K
And call them diamond rings	K
	-
Thy folly's past advice	K
Thy heart's already won	A
Thy fall's above all price	K
So go and be undone	A
For all who thus prefer	F
The seeming great for small	H
Shall make wine vinegar	F
And sweetest honey gall	H
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Wouldst heed the truths I sing	Z2
To profit wherewithal	H
Clip folly's wanton wing	Z2
And keep her within call	H
I've little else to give	P
What thou canst easy try	Y
The lesson how to live	P
Is but to learn to die	Y

John Clare

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