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Epistle To James Smith (第2/3页)
der on, wi' tentless heed how never-halting moments speed, till fate shall snap the brittle thread; then, all unknown, i'll lay me with th' inglorious dead fot and gone! but why o' death being a tale? just now we're living sound and hale; then top and maintop crowd the sail, heave care o'er-side! and large, before enjoyment's gale, let's tak the tide. this life, sae far's i uand, is a' ented fairy-land, where pleasure is the magid, that, wielded right, maks hours like minutes, hand in hand, dance by fu' light. the magid the us wield; for ahat five-an'-forty's speel'd, see, crazy, weary, joyless eild, wi' wrinkl'd face, es hostin, hirplin owre the field, we' creepin pace. when ance life's day draws he gloamin, then fareweel vat, careless roamin; an' fareweel cheerfu' tankards foamin, an' social noise: an' fareweel dear, deluding woman, the joy of joys! o life! how pleasant, in thy m, young fancy's rays the hills ad! cold-pausing caution's lesson sing, we frisk away, like school-boys, at th' expected warning, to joy an' play. we wahere, we wander here, we eye the rose upon the brier, unmindful that the thorn is near, among the leaves; and tho' the puny wound appear, short while it grieves. some, lucky, find a flow'ry spot, for which they oil'd nor swat; they drink the sweet ahe fat, but care or pain; and haply eye the barren hut with high disdain. with steady aim, some fortune chase; keen hope does ev'ry sinew brace; thro' fair, thro' foul, they urge the race, an' seize the prey: then ie, in some cozie place, they close the day. and others, like your humble servan', phts! nae rules nor roads observin, tht or left eternal swervin, they zig-zag on; till, curst with age, obscure an
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