FROM « THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES

by D' Johnson.

Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy.

And shuts up all the passages of joy ; In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons shower The fruit autumnal, & the vernal flower : With listless eyes the dotard views the store. He sees and wonders that they please no more.

Byron says of this work of D' Johnson « 'Tis a grand poem — and so true — true as the 10th of Juvenal itself. The lapse of ages changes all things — time, language — the earth — the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky and everything about, around, and underneath man ; except himseli. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death and the infinity of wishes to disappointments ».

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