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LIFE AND ETERNITY.
Life is the veil that hides eternity.—Youth strives in vain to pierce it, but the eye
Of age may catch, thro' chinks which Time has worn,
Faint glimpses of that awful world beyond
Which Death at last reveals. Thus life may be
Compared to a tree's foliage; in its prime,
A mass of dark, impenetrable shade,
It veils the distant view, but day by day,
As Autumn's breath is felt, the falling leaves,
Opening a passage for the doubtful light,
Exhibit to the gazer more and more
Of that which lies beyond, till Winter comes
And thro' the skeleton branches we behold
The clear blue vault of day.
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