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IV. MUTABILITY.
“Say not what yet may happen, being man;
Nor what may be another's mortal span:
For rapid is the change which on us lies,
E'en as the insect spreads its wing and dies.”
Nor what may be another's mortal span:
For rapid is the change which on us lies,
E'en as the insect spreads its wing and dies.”
ANOTHER TRANSLATION OF THE SAME.
“Say not, mortal, what shall be,Nor of one whom thou may'st see
When his lot to die:
For the change of human things
Is more swift than glancing wings
Of the summer fly.”
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