SHORTNESS OF LIFE.
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VI.
In business that concerns not thee!
For when to future years thou extend'st thy cares,
Thou deal'st in other men's atfairs.
VII.
Children again, for age prepare.
Provisions for long travail they design
In the last point of their short line.
VIII.
The stock which summer's wealth affords,
In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die,
How vain were such an industry.
IX.
Might half excuse our cheated sight,
If it of life the whole small time would stay,
And be our sunshine all the day.