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  • To contemplation's sober eye,
    Such is the race of man;
    And they that creep, and they that fly,
    Shall end where they began,
    Alike the busy and the gay,
    But flutter through life's little day.

    John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.251