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Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?


Bowed to the earth with bitter woe,
Or laughing at some raree-show,
We flutter idly to and fro.


Man's little Day in haste we spend,
And, from its merry noontide, send
No glance to meet the silent end.