Their course is one way bent,
Which is the course, there’s no dissent
In Heaven’s High Court of Parliament.
Time.
Every year steals away something from us. In one we lose a relation, in the next a friend; health grows more precarious, and pleasure less alluring, till by degrees the whole little mass of happiness we had been gathering drops from us insensibly, and that grave, which we had once looked on with so much horror, becomes at last our refuge and shelter.
Lamentations selfish.
Selfish to lament.
When fate relentless makes the good man die,