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Job iii Ecclesiastes i	A
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Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud	B
Like a swift fleeting meteor a fast flying cloud	B
A flash of the lightning a break of the wave	C
He passes from life to his rest in the grave	C
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The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade	D
Be scattered around and together be laid	D
And the young and the old the low and the high	A
Shall molder to dust and together shall lie	A
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The infant a mother attended and loved	E
The mother that infant's affection who proved	F
The husband that mother and infant who blessed	G
Each all are away to their dwelling of rest	G
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The maid on whose cheek on whose brow in whose eye	A
Shone beauty and pleasure her triumphs are by	A
And the memory of those who loved her and praised	H
Are alike from the minds of the living erased	I
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The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne	J
The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn	J
The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave	C
Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave	C
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The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap	K
The herdsman who climbed with his goats up the steep	K
The beggar who wandered in search of his bread	L
Have faded away like the grass that we tread	L
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The saint who enjoyed the communion of Heaven	M
The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven	M
The wise and the foolish the guilty and just	N
Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust	N
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So the multitude goes like the flower or the weed	O
That withers away to let others succeed	O
So the multitude comes even those we behold	P
To repeat every tale that has often been told	P
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For we are the same that our fathers have been	Q
We see the same sights that our fathers have seen	R
We drink the same stream we feel the same sun	M
And run the same course that our fathers have run	M
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The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think	S
From the death we are shrinking our fathers would shrink	S
To the life we are clinging they also would cling	T
But it speeds from us all like a bird on the wing	T
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They loved but the story we cannot unfold	P
They scorned but the heart of the haughty is cold	P
They grieved but no wail from their slumber will come	U
They joyed but the tongue of their gladness is dumb	U
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They died aye they died we things that are now	V
That walk on the turf that lies over their brow	V
And make in their dwellings a transient abode	W
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road	W
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Yea hope and despondency pleasure and pain	X
Are mingled together in sunshine and rain	X
And the smile and the tear the song and the dirge	Y
Still follow each other like surge upon surge	Y
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'Tis the wink of an eye 'tis the draught of a breath	Z
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death	Z
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud	B
Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud	B

William Knox

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