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A TESTIMONY.
I said of laughter: it is vain.
Of mirth I said: what profits it?
Therefore I found a book, and writ
Therein how ease and also pain,
How health and sickness, every one
Is vanity beneath the sun.
Of mirth I said: what profits it?
Therefore I found a book, and writ
Therein how ease and also pain,
How health and sickness, every one
Is vanity beneath the sun.
Man walks in a vain shadow; he
Disquieteth himself in vain.
The things that were shall be again:
The rivers do not fill the sea,
But turn back to their secret source;
The winds too turn upon their course.
Disquieteth himself in vain.
The things that were shall be again:
The rivers do not fill the sea,
But turn back to their secret source;
The winds too turn upon their course.
