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Not Understood

Friendship’s flying, love is dying,
  In the summer time they came;
Winter through the trees is sighing,
  Love and friendship, scorn and shame.

Years are stealing, years are stealing.
  See life’s tinsel chariot glide;
Grasping avarice is wheeling
  Vanity and vulgar pride;
False and shallow, time will swallow
  Rags and riches in his tide:
Millions went and we must follow—
  Prince or pauper may not ’bide.

Years are stealing, years are stealing,
  Yonder mist is but a tear
The brilliant eye of day concealing,
Morn is there, and night is here.
In the morning, streaks adorning
  Heaven’s grand refulgent sphere;
Clouds at mid-day—solemn warning—
  Darker shades at night appear.