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The man doth thrive to thirty-five,
then sober is in mind,
His children shall do on him call,
and breed him sturt and strife;
His wife may die, and to must he
go seek another wife.
Then August; old. both stout and bold
when flowers do stoutly stand;
So man appears' to forty years,
with wisdom and command:
And both provide his house to guide,
children and familie:
Yet do not miss t'remember this,
that one day thou must die.
September then comes with his train,
and makes the flow’rs to fade,
Then man believe is forty-five,
grave, constant, wife and sad;
When he looks on how youth is gone,
and shall it no more see:
Then may he lay, both night and day,
have mercy, Lord, on me:
October’s blast comes in with boasts,
'and makes the flow’rs to fall,
Then man appears to fifty years;
old age both on him call:
The almond tree both flourish hie
and pale grows man we fee;
Then it is time to use his life
remember, man, to die.
