And yet we do not that; we are not men:

There is not now that mankinde, which was then,

When as, the Sunne and man did seeme to strive,

Shortnesse of life.

(Joynt tenants of the world) who should survive;

115When, Stagge, and Raven, and the long-liv'd tree,

Compar'd with man, dy'd in minoritie;

When, if a slow pac'd starre had stolne away

From the observers marking, he might stay