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The Dance of Life

A Poem, by the author of "Doctor Syntax;%" [i.e. William Combe] Illustrated with coloured engravings, by Thomas Rowlandson
  

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Thus did old Granny sit and trace
The scenes, long past in time and place,

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And fram'd with recollective power
Th'instruction for the present hour.