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Be re the mind can mark its station.
4. On earth we hold the spirit blest,
That learns to bear a iction cheerly,
nd what we call, and ncy rest,
Is brief annihilation merely.
5. 'Tis vain to say in youth l ears,
Time ees, earth des, with all its pleasures; The ardent heart attentive hears,
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goodness and providence, that each individual of the civilised millions that cover the earth, may have nearly the same enjoyments, as if he were the single lord of all.
The brilliant course of earthly pleasure How looks the space assign'd to man,
Lost in the vast eternal measure !
2. Rank, rtune, love, earth's highest bliss, All life can yield, of sweet or splendid,
Are but a thing that scarcely is,
hen lo ! its mortal date is ended !
3. So swift is time, so brie y lost
The eeting joys of life's creation,
What seems the present, is the past,
,
But nought of transient counsel treasures.
ARNOTT.
LESSON XV.
TIME ND ETERNITY.
1. FoR, stretch to life's extremest span
