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SONG by ROBERT DODSLEY

Poet Analysis

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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