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The Works of William Cowper

Note 397 — PART THE SECOND. (continued 9)

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We insert Pope's translation, as being the most familiar to the reader.

"Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those have pass'd away."

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