Nothing fee simple; all on lease, or loan!

So complain not, as if to strike away

From life ere extreme age, if then, a day

Were robbery. We have, all grant, no right

O’er the past; Nature, keeping this in sight,

Inquires what better title then have we

To stake out a claim in futurity.

Past—no beginning—future—no end—are one;

Neither heeds when Man comes; when he is gone;

And you—when time casts you out, why lament,