And though the like may prosper for awhile, there comes unerringly the fate to all structures that upon the sands are built!
They from sight for aye do pass away.
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Think not this life of joy and woe the only life there is to know?
It is but here our earthly task, which when completed, fades from view, when its destined hour arrives,
Into that peace which for eternity endures.
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[14]The Courts wherein the king of splendor holds full sway, betwixt the eagle and the bull and where the lion and the man do play;