Sweet Science, this large riddle read me plain:
How may the death of that dull insect be
The life of yon trim Shakespeare on the tree?
(The Mocking-bird)
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So hath Trade withered up Love's sinewy prime,Men love not women as in olden time.
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Thus we became the sport of Fate.
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Your Life shall bend and o'er his shuttle toil,
A weaver weaving at the loom of grief.
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Yea, gathering crops whose worth no man might tell,
He staked his life on games of Buy-and-Sell,
And turned each field into a gambler's hell.
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Motion stood dreaming he was changed to Rest,
And Life asleep did fancy he was Death.
Sidney Lanier
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