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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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The sage grave man, with solemn air,
As he rose slowly from his chair,
Seem'd all around him to review—
Then sigh'd—and silently withdrew.