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FORTUNE IS LIKE THE MOON by SOPHOCLES

First Line: BUT MY FATE, ON SOME THROBBING WHEEL OF GOD
Last Line: SHE MELTS AND COMES AGAIN TO NOTHINGNESS.
Subject(s): FATE; DESTINY;

BUT my fate, on some throbbing wheel of God,
Always must rise and fall, and change its being:
As the moon's image never two nights long
May in one station rest: out of the dark
The young face grows, still lovelier, still more perfect,
Then at the noblest of her shining, back
She melts and comes again to nothingness.



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