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The Kite

An Heroi-Comical Poem. In Three Canto's [by Phanuel Bacon]
Bacon, Phanuel (1700-1783)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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The KITE.
 I. 
CANTO I.
 II. 
CANTO II.
 III. 
CANTO III.

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Ah! What avail It's easy-waving Wings?
And Length of Tail, that boasts Successive Acts of Kings!
How frail our Span of Time! How fix'd its Date,
And greatest Works must one Day yield to Fate!
Sleep-breaking Care, Gay Pleasure, and Pale Woe,
Meet in one Stream! and in one Channel flow!
Virtue but like a shining Vapour flies!
And when it brightest Blazes, soonest Dies!
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