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The Dream of A Shadow of Smoke
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So is every man. he is born in vanity and sin.
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he comes into the world like morning mushrooms,
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soon thrustling up their heads into the air, and conversing with
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Their Kindred of the same production,
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and as soon as they turn to dust and forgetfulness,
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Some of them without any other interest in the affairs of the world,
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but that They Made their parents a little glad and very sorrowful...
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
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Others ride longer in the storm, maybe until seven years of vanity be expired
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And then, preadventure, the sun shines hot upon their heads,
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and they fall into the shades below, into the cover of death and darkness and the grave to hide them.
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But if the bubble stands the shock of a bigger drop,
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and outlives the chance of a child or a careless nurse,
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or drowning in a pail of water, or being overlaid by a sleepy servant,
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or such little accidents, then the young man dances like a bubble, empty and gay,
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and shines like a dove's neck, or the image of a rainbow,
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which has no substance, and whose very imagery and colours are fantastical.
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And so he dances out the gaiety of his youth,
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and is all the while in a storm,
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and endures only because he is not knocked on the head by a drop of bigger pain,
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or crushed by the pressure of a load of undigested meat,
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or quenched by the disorder of an ill-placed humour
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Homer calls man a leaf, the smallest;
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Pindar calls him the dream of a shadow, another, the dream of a shadow of smoke;
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But St. James spake, by a more excellent spirit, saying our life is but a vapour,
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That is to say, drawn from the air by a celestial influence,
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made of smoke and the lighter parts of water,
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tossed by the wind and moved by the motion of a superior body,
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without virtue in itself and lifted up on high or left below, according as
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It Pleases the demands of its foster fathers...
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
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In my mind is the sound
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Of rudderless ships
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A time, and a time
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And a time
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And a time
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So much silence
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Deafens our ears
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So much emptiness
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Hinders our movements
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Lost in the earth
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And lost in the air
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Around my hollow globe
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Broken feathers
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Blocking my words
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And the no-one smlies
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And nothing moves
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Broken in snow
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The sun bares teeth
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So one: i shall build a boat
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Two: i shall not fly a flag
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Three, three, three:
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God's three functions
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So three: i shall cross myself
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Four: and hope to die
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
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