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RICHES CHANCE MAY TAKE OR GIVE, by                    
Last Line: "and beauty, mirth, and pleasure fail"
Subject(s): Life


"Riches chance may take or give;
Beauty lives a day, and dies;
Honour lulls us while we live;
Mirth's a cheat and pleasure flies.
Is there nothing worth our care,
Time, and chance, and death, our foes?
If our joys so fleeting are,
Are we only tied to woes?
Let bright virtue answer, No;
Her eternal powers prevail,
When honours, riches, cease to flow,
And beauty, mirth, and pleasure fail."





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