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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by ROBERT DODSLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Man's a poor deluded bubble
Last Line: "lost in error lives and dies."
Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race
First Line: Man's a poor deluded bubble
Last Line: "lost in error lives and dies."
Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race
"Man's a poor deluded bubble,
Wand'ring in a mist of lies,
Seeing false or seeing double,
Who would trust to such weak eyes?
Yet presuming on his senses,
On he goes most wondrous wise:
Doubts of truth, believes pretences,
Lost in error lives and dies."
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