<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vanity of Vanities</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be ye happy, if ye may,<br>In the years that pass away.<br>Ye shall pass and be forgot,<br>And your place shall know you not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Other generations rise,<br>With the same hope in their eyes<br>That in yours is kindled now,<br>And the same light on their brow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They shall see the selfsame sun<br>That your eyes now gaze upon,<br>They shall breathe the same sweet air,<br>And shall reck not who ye were.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet they too shall fade at last<br>In the twilight of the past,<br>They and you alike shall be<br>Lost from the world's memory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, while yet ye breathe and live,<br>Drink the cup that life can give.<br>Be ye happy, if ye may,<br>In the years that pass away,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere the golden bowl be broken,<br>Ere ye pass and leave no token,<br>Ere the silver cord be loosed,<br>Ere ye turn again to dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">`And shall this be all,' ye cry,<br>`But to eat and drink and die?<br>If no more than this there be,<br>Vanity of vanity!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, all things are vanity,<br>And what else but vain are ye?<br>Ye who boast yourselves the kings<br>Over all created things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kings! whence came your right to reign?<br>Ye shall be dethroned again.<br>Yet for this, your one brief hour,<br>Wield your mockery of power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dupes of Fate, that treads you down<br>Wear awhile your tinsel crown<br>Be ye happy, if ye may,<br>In the years that pass away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Fuller+Murray">Robert Fuller Murray</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507054" data-title="Vanity of Vanities de Robert Fuller Murray" data-description="Be ye happy, if ye may, In the years that pass away. Ye shall pass and be forgot, And your place shall know you not. Other generations rise, With the same hope in their eyes That in yours is kindled now, And the same light on their brow. They sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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