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Of chance, or change, O let not man complain, Else shall he never, never cease to wail; For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel the assault of fortune’s fickle gale; Art, empire, earth itself, to change are doomed; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain’s mighty mass entombed, And where the Atlantic rolls, wide continents have bloomed.
Of chance, or change, O let not man complain, Else shall he never, never cease to wail; For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel the assault of fortune’s fickle gale; Art, empire, earth itself, to change are doomed; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain’s mighty mass entombed, And where the Atlantic rolls, wide continents have bloomed.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Beattie (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 106 · printed citation: Beattie · subject: CHANGE
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