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Thus do the generations of the earth
Go to the grave, and issue from the womb.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south and turneth about unto the north, it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again, according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whence the rivers come, thither shall they return again.

Ecclesiastes, chap. i.

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⁠Even as the leaves
Which the keen frost-wind of the waning year
Has scattered on the forest soil.

 

Οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ, τοιήδὲ καὶ ανδρῶν.
Φύλλα τὰ μέν τ᾽ ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ᾽ὕλη
Τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ᾽ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη·
Ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ, ἣ μὲν φύει ἣδ᾽ ἀπολήγει.^[1]
ΙΛΙΑΔ. Ζ'. l. 146.

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1. 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 are past away.
   Pope's Homer.