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LIFE 

             LIFE'S WONDER

IS "vanity of vanities”: thus said The Preacher, in the ages long since dead. And "vanity of vanities," the cry Rings on the air of every century. The worldling, pleasure-worn, toil-wearied, asks,"Is life worth living," with its weary tasks? Religion, with her faithless moan, appears, And says, The world is but "a vale of tears." "O fools and blind!" the wonder-feast to spite, Whose own wild folly's dulled your appetite! A blind man through a wondrous picture hall Went muttering about each "empty wall.” A deaf man, when a symphony was sung, Much marvelled at each mute and voiceless tongue.

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