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Advance. 1 The W i 1 son CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R. LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIm'sT AT, BE THY COUNTRY' S, THY GOd's, AND TRUTH'S.' $1.50 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE. VOLUME XXII. WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, AUGUST 25th, 1892. NUMBER 32. Cash Catches tlie Bargains. Ve have received a beauti ful assortment of Crystal Glass-Ware In new Styles at our usual 5. also prices lace Curtains from 65c. up. Lace Bed Sets at 94c Come and see these goods. You will find they are very de sirable and much below the prices asked elsewhere for the same quality of goods. The Cash WILSON, N. C. Nash and Goldsboro Streets. THE WASHINGTON LIFE Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK. ASSETTS, - - - $10,500,000. The Policies written by the Washington are Described in these general terms: -Non-rorieitable. Unrestricted as to residence and travel after two years. Incontestable after two years. Secured by an Invested Reserve. Solidly backed by bonds and mort gages, first liens on real estate. Safer than railroad securities. Not affected by the Stock market. Better paying investments than U. S. Bonds. Less expensive than assessment certificates. More liberal than thp lau; rpnntroc t Definite Contracts. T. L. ALFRIEND, Manager, Richmond, Va. SAM'L L. ADAMS, Special Dist. Agent, Room 6, Wright Building,' 4-30-iv. Durham, N. C. DR. W. S. ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, . Wilson, n. c. Oftce in Drn? Store on Tarboro St. DR. ALBERT ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, N. C. Office next door to the First Nations rir, uk- L. K. WRIGHT, Surgeon Dentist, Havi WILSON, w r son Ins- t1" rt"enny located in W1I th'publicr niy'lroftssional services t9 JOffice in Central Hotel Building- Whoa ! si -JheiVn LaGrange and de-Slringafirst-class'turn-out for n mediate point, come to car n7stables- Good teams, rate i I1Vers and reasonable ;mentVentadueSpecial ar" toSu e" swith the proprietor Spring vftrnS t0 ?CVen JSfjyne county's fa 0016 health resort. Call on me! . W- H. HARPER, "LaGrange, N. C. U1BLE WORKS; 'i5 Bank St., U 0RFLK VA. w;;to?ffihed Gravestones, &c, M11P'"ent. Backet Stores. 5-M-iy. NATIONAL, DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President : GROVER CLEVELAND, Of New York. For Vice-President : AD LA I E. STEVENSON. Of Illinois For Electors at Large : CHARLES B. AYCOCK, ROBERT B. GLENN. THE STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Governor: . ELIAS CARR, of Edgecombe. F or Lieutenant Governor : RUFUS A. DOUGHTON, of Alleghany. For Secretary of State : OCTAVIUS COKE, ' of Wake. For Auditor : ROBERT M. FURMAN, of Buncombe. For Treasurer : DONALD W. BAIN, of Wake. For Supt. of Public Instruction : JOHN C. SCARBOROUGH, of Johnston. For Attorney General : FRANK I. OSBORNE, of Mecklenburg. For Judge of the Twelfth District : GEORGE A. SHUFORD. For Congress Second District : FREDERICK A. WOODARD, of Wilson. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. For House of Representatives : DR. JOHN T. GRAVES. For Sheriff : JONAS W. CRO WELL. For Register of Deeds : SPENCER M. WARREN. For Treasurer : WILLIAM T. FARMER. For Coroner : DR. CHARLES E. MOORE. For Surveyor : JAMES W. TAYLOR. Public Office is a Public Trust. Gro ver Cleveland. I believe that the Administration is responsible to the people for all the acts of the officers of the Government, and that therefore the offices should be filled by friends of the Administration, and that the men who conduct the ad ministration of public affairs, and who are responsible for them, should have the selection of thejr subordinates. To the victors belong the spoils. Adlai E. Stevenson. Free government is self-government. There is no self-government where the people do not control their own elec tions and lay their own taxes. When either of these rights is taken away or diminished a breach is made, not in the outer defenses, but in the citadel of our freedom. For years we have been struggling to recover the lost right of taxirfg- ourselves, and now we are threatened with the loss of the greater right of governing ourselves. The loss of the one follows in necessary succes sion the loss of the other. When you confer on Government the power of dealing out wealth you unchain every evil that can prey upon and eventually destroy free institutions excessive tax ation, class taxation, billion-dollar con gresses, a corrupt civil service, a de bauched ballot-box and purchased elections. From Hon. VV. L. Wilson's speech at Chicago. Our Real Sent 1 111 cuts. The society of ladies is the school of politeness. Mountfort. All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln. Remember, woman is most per fect when most womanlyGladstone Earth has nothing more tender than a pious woman's heart. Luther He that would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife. Ben Johnson. Lovely woman that caused our cares can every care beguile. Beres ford. A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness. Lamar tine. No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife Richter. Yes, woman's love is free from guile and pure as bright Aurora's ray. Morris. Disguise our bondage as we will, 'tis woman rules us still. Moore. Women need not look at those dear to them to know their moods. Howells. Even in the darkest hour of earthly ill woman's fond affection glows. Sand. Raptured man quits each dozing sage, oh, woman ! for thy lovelier page. Moor.e Kindness in woman, not her beau teous looks, shall win my love. Sakespeare. . Eternal joy and everlasting love there's in you, woman, lovely woman. Otway. Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Andrew Jackson. Decision, however suicidal, has more charms for a woman than the most unequivocal Fabian success. Hardy. I have been a great sen" erer from Catarrh for over ten years ; had it very bad, could hardly breathe. Some nights I could hardly sleep and had to walk the floor. I purchased Ely's Cream Balm and am using it freely, it is working a cure surely. I have ad vised several friends to use it, and with happy results in every cgse. It is the medicine above all others for catarrh, and it is worth its weight in gold. I thank God I have found a remedy I can use with safety and that does all that is claimed for it. It is curing my deaf ness. B. R. Soivev. Hartford Conn. BILL ARP'S LETTER. AN IDEAL PLACE IS THIS PROSPER OUS TEXAS TOWN. No Man is Afraid to Work for Honest Money, And After All That's The Only Kind That Brings Real Peace,. Joy and Contentment. Here I am in Texas again, alter eight years the same great, wonder ful State, only with more railroads, more people, more homes and more farms in cultivation. Eight years ago I wanted to come to Brownwood, for I believed it to be a good town with bright prospects, and, as I had a little spare money, I wanted to put it there. I wish that I had, but there was no railroad then, and I didn't have time to ride 100 miles -overland. It then had about 1,500 people and now about 6,ooo, and is still increas ing rapidly. It has a large territory to draw upon southward and west ward, and has a manifest destiny be fore it. The surrounding country is said to be the best poor man's coun try in Texas, and as it fills up with immigrants the business of Brown wood must increase. The Georgians abound here, and they flook around me to give me welcome and to talk about the friends and kindred they left behind, and they want to know all about Georgia politics and what the Third party is doing. I talk very careful and conservative about that, for 1 don't know who I am talk ing to, and State politics is awful hot here in Texas. The Hoggites and the Clarkites are very bitter, and the third party is sawing wood, for there are thousands of Democrats here who swear that if Hogg is nominated they will vote for Nugent, the third party candidate. Everybody speaks well of Nugent. Hogg is very un popular in railroad circles, such as Fort Worth and Dallas, but it is generally conceded that he will be nominated and elected. I found on the train that brought me here from Fort Worth six men from Murray and Whitfield, coming out to Comanche to buy land. Every train brings some from north Georgia. Young men come by the score. The negro is not in their way here, and if I was a young married man I'd come myself. The truth is, the negro is in the young man's way. There are not a dozen negroes in the town of Weatherford. where I was last week a prosperous, lively, busy town of 5,000 people a town where the)-, handle 60,000 bales of cotton, and immense quantities of wheat, and corn, and oats and vegetables ; where every dray, and hack and carriage is driven by clever, wide-awake young men ; where white barbers shave you, and white folks do everything and not ashamed of it. I know young white men in my town who are clerking for $25 a month who could make $50 or $60 running a dray, but they won't do it because it looks niggery. j know poor girls who won't hire to cook or clean up the house for the same reasons. All labor is honor able here. A young white man has just made up my bed here in the hotel and he talked to me intelligently and pleasantiy while he cleaned up the room. He is earning honest money, and will get a better place after while. There are but twenty-five or thirty negroes in Brown county. There is but one in Comanche county, that joins this. He runs on the train, and his name was Newton Fields, and he had the honor of being the only darky that was allowed to stay. It seems that there were about a hund red in Comanche county, and one of them committed an outrage, and the citizens gathered and made them all leave the county within twenty-four hours. I believe it will come to that in Georgia. Visiting summary punish ment upon one does not seem to do any good, and the way to do is to to hold his kinfolks and his settle ment responsible. These Texans use no timid measures about anything. They are the most independent and self-reliant people I have ever met. They ask no favors. It does not con cern them' what the North will say, and as for the negro he has to be have himself and be humble, and he does. In our State we help them in every way, and yet they show no gratitude. We employ them as blacksmiths and carpenters and dray men, and at every election they vote against us. You couldn't make them believe that General Grant was a slave-owner until Mr. Lincoln's pro clamation set them free. A few weeks ago our school board elected a negro girl as teacher in the colored school and her impudent, insolent father said he would let his daughter teach school, but none of his folks should cook or wash or nurse for the white folks. If you hire one she quits when she pleases. No contract will bind them. We have borne with all this for peace, but there is a growing alienation between the races. I didn't realize how bad it was until I got here and seen for myself how much better it is to get along without them. They are an everlasting worry at my house and among my neighbors. It costs twice as much to live when you have a negro cook. A friend out here who was raised with the negroes and own ed them said that in almost every family in Weatherford the father and the boys helped the mother and the girls in all the household matters, and so the burden was F.ght very light. The family washing is all done at the laundry, and the laundry wagon comes round ar regularly as the ice wagon. Weatherford is a delightful town. The first thing that strikes you is the $60,000 court house that is built of native stone stone that is of a rich cream color and is bordered with smooth white trimmings. The next thing is that the stores all around the square and the beautiful churches and seminaries are all built of the same material, and it gives the town a clean, cheerful appearance. They have street cars, and water-works and electric lights. The chautauqua grounds are one mile away, situated on a high plateau that welcomes a cooling breeze both day and night. Good people gather there once a year and bring their tents, and they have talks, and lectures, and essays, and normal school exercises and music, and it is all refining and in structive. Every day the good peo ple of the town go out to enjoy these delightful and social luxuries that purify both mind and body. I found there some of the most eminent ministers of the South, for although this chautauqua is under the auspices oi the Cumberland Presbyterians, it is not by any means sectarian. Rev. R. W. Lewis is its master spirit, and he really believes it a bigger thing than the nomination of a gover nor. This country around Brownwood is almost right fresh from the Maker's hand. Not one acre in ten has ever had a furrow run through it, and it is all nearly alike in virgin fertility. There is room here for ten times its present population. Indians roamed over these prairies and bred their ponies and cattle since the war and sometimes killed or scalped the few settlers who dared to venture this far from the settlements. I am glad they are not here now, though its my opinion that a Comanche would make a poor job in scalping me. "Go west, red man" is the white man's fiat, and they have gone. I see that the government is educating quite a number of young Indians at Carlyle and they seem to make good scholars and like their their new civilization. Whether the tribes will continue to decrease in number remains to be seen, but it does look like they are going to join the Aztecs and the mound builders Bill Arp. Judge Russell to the Bat. Ex-Judge Daniel L. Russell, of Wilmington, has a card in last week's Raleigh Signal, in which he declares that the only hope for the Republi can party in North Carolina is in coalition with the Third party on the State ticket. He attacks Congress man Cheatham in savage style, say ing: "The substantial Republicans of the East are profoundly disgusted at the intolerable obtrusiveness of many of the negro politicians, sup ported by the revenue crowd, and the unlortunate fact must be ac knowledged that the black people have chosen to follow the corrupt mercenaries ot their race and ignore the counsels of the white leaders, to whose advice they have heretofore deferred. The actual leader of the party in the State is a negro Con gressman, whose only qualification for leadership is the color of his skin. In that negro district in past years, when the negro majority was five times what it is to-day, white men of character and capacity were elected to Congress by negro votes. Now, no white man ever thinks of asking for the nomination in that district. None bnt a negro is thought of and the more incompetent and treacherous he is, the more certain he is to get the prize. If Blaine and Tom Reed and Chauncey Depew and Tourgee resided there neither could be nominaied for) Congress un less he bought the nomination at a good round price for cash. "No one would more rejoice to see the negro race treated with liberality and justice, but the attainment of this end is remote so long as the negro indicates by his political conduct that he only wants power to enact in the South the scenes which have demon strated his incapacity for self-government in Hayti, Jamaica and San Domingo." A sore leg, the flesh a mass of dis eate, yet P. P. P. achieved wohderful results, the flesh was purified and the bone got sound, and my health was established, says Mr. James Masters, of Savannah. Ga "Romance," the magazine of com plete stories, shows every month new signs of the improvement in its character, which began when Mrs. Kate Upson Clark became its editor. 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Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Hemmor rhage and all throat and lung diseas es Elegant, reliable '.. I 25 cents at druggists Prepared only bv Dr H Mozlev. Atlanta Ga AYCOCK'S SPEECH BEFORE THE CLEVELAND, CARR AND ffOODAKD CAMPAIGN CLUli, On the Night of its Organization, Aug. 4th, 1892 An Eloquent Appeal to Democrats to Stand Together and aid in the Great Victory we -will win. Mr. Aycock made his appearance and Mr. Woodard of the Committee, said : Ladies and gentlemen : It is my pleasure to present to you, for he need no introduction to a Wilson audience, Mr. C. B. Aycock, of Golds boro, Democratic nominee for elector at large. Mr. Aycock said, in substance : Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle men : I am glad to be with you to night at the formation of your Club, I am persuaded that there is a reat work lor you to do in the campaign now before us. Down in the East, where I have been speak ing. I have lost what the Third party has never had my voice and found what it has never possessed the truth. (He was referring to his ex treme hoarseness.) I think this is the greatest cam paign we have had since 1876. It is greatly to be deplored and I am sorry that the voice of our great leader in that contest is silenced by serious ill ness. Grand man that he is, we shall miss him. His voice is silent, but we are ready for the fray. I know that our opponents are claiming every thing. I know, too, sir, that there are many who are waiting to see which side is the stronger, before allying themselves with either. Brave men do not wait for that. They only look to see which side is right and then boldly take their stand. Our forces are doing this and men are again rallying to Democracy, because, as ever, it is right. And we will win ! I have thought that Democrats needed stirring up to be renewed in the faith. We need not only to convert sinners but to comfort the saints as well sometimes, and I propose to comfort the saints a litttle. If we are not saints in comparison with our ene mies, I don't know. But I am wonder ing how any Democrat can be silent under such able leaders as we have chosen as our standard bearers how any one can sit still when duty calls him to the front. Now, what do our enemies say about our matchless leader, the in comparable Cleveland ? The first charge we hear is that he is the tool of Wall street. Wall street is cried and week kneed Democrats flee. Zeb Vance Walser, ot Davidson county, told a Third partyite who was abus ing "Walter Street" that no such man lived in Davidson county. "Oh ! well," was the reply, "he lives some where and runs Mr. Cleveland." Now that is ignorance's idea and that man needs to be enlightened. I have found Wall street. It is in the city of New York. On it is situated many of the banks, business men, capitalists, and it does control a lot money. Now it is true, and you all know it, that the vote of New York's delegation at Chicago was cast against Cleveland every time. Money is powerful and if Wall street had wanted Grover Cleveland nominated some of those delegates could have been induced to vote for Cleveland. It didn't wani him ! It opposed him because he is brave, honest, manly and true. A boy once came home irom college and at night walked out with his father. Turning to the old man, he said : "Father, do you see that star up there ? Well, it is larger than the moon." "What !" said the old man, in surprise. "Yes, it is larger than the moon," repeated the boy. The old man looked steadily at the twinkling orb and then at the glorious queen of night for a few moments, and then said : "Son, you are mighty smart, and it may be. Maybe it is larger , but it's got a durned poor way of showing it !" If Wall street wanted Cleveland it had a poor way of showing it. And I thank God he was too true and honest for them to want him. Now they charge he aided Wall street by depositing money in the National Banks. Where did they get that from ? I'll tell you. Four years ago every Republican speaker made the same charge. By-the-way, do you hear a Republican speaker these days ? No you don't. But they are not dead, although they stink. The stench comes not from death but from evil deeds, and smells unto high Heaven ! Did Cleveland do this ? Yes, he did and I would not have voted for him if he hadn't. Why ? Under the existing Republi can robber tariff laws there was a $4,000,000 surplus in the Treasury, and it was still accumulating. The Republicans saw this and put up the price of Government bonds, and he had to buy bonds at this advanced price, paying more than they were worth, thereby squandering your money and mine, or put the money in banks where you and I could get it, and he did the latter and I honor him for it. There was still $183,000,000 surplus when he went out His! record gives the lie to the charge that he contracted the curren cy, and I challenge any man to show that he wrote one line favoring con traction. There has never been a grander exhibition of courage than the writing of his famous tariff mes sage, save one. There was one higher, and only one. When a Re publican Senate and House passed the dependent pension bill appropria- i ting millions, he knew, if he signed it, he would be using the public money to help himself and that it would re elect him. Yet this great, grand, honest man, with the office of Presi dent within his grasp, anxious as all men must be and stirred by a lauda ble ambition and every tie of desire, said : "No, I will not do it !" And he wrote across that bill : m"l veto !" Yet, in the face of these facts, we are told he is not fit to be President ! Who is ? Benjamin Harrison ? Weav er? Cleveland vetoed that bill. Weaver, by the bill he introduced, says : "I'll use $300,000,000 for you it you will help boost me into the Presidential chair !" What has come over us that we have to argue these things ? Again : For twenty years our people had not felt that they were in the Union. When Cleveland was elected we felt like we were once more at home. He called to his Cabinet such Southern men as Lamar, Bay ard and Garland. When a vacancy came on the Supreme Court Bench that high tribunal where our rights are settled he called Lamar, one of our people, to fill that. He came to North Carolina and selected Jarvis, the best peace Governor North Caro lina ever had, to go to Brazil and E. J. Hale and Ed. Hill to go as Con suls to foreign ports. He was the friend of the South and stood by our people and I am proud of him. What other reason for not stand ing by us ? I'm talking to Third partyites now. The Republicans are not talking. Bless your soul, when one pops his head up I'll hit him, but until then, I will labor with these Weaverites and every one of them ought to come back, and they will, too. They come up and say : "Oh ! he wrote a silver letter." Yes, he did. He wrote it five years ago, and all these fellows who are now com plaining, voted for him then and they knew it. What is the position of the Democratic party in regard to money? It is plain. I am proud of it be cause it is square out and straight forward, and all honest men can stand on it all men who believe a debt of $1 should be paid with 100 cents. They tell us the Convention had to wire it to Cleveland to see if it suited him. Yes, the men who wrote it did wire it to him. Why? Because they knew he would not stand on a plat form that was not honest and true and that he believed in, great, grand, honest man that he is. They didn't wire Harrison and Weaver and ask them about their platform. They are so little and insignificant that thev would accept on any platform, and "thank 'ee. too !" Now what does our platform say : We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value to be adjusted through inter-national agreement, or by such safeguard of legislation as shall insure the maintainance of the parity or the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the mar kets and in the payment ot debt; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeem able in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and fluctu ating currency. Now I've told you the truth. I am not ashamed of that platform and we have nothing to apologize for. We say that a dollar shall be worth 100 cents. That is honest and all honest men desire nothing more. You ought to have a dollar's worth of gold in a gold dollar and a dollars worth of silver 111 a silver dollar and the Demo cratic party proposes to see that this is given you. Now this is our posi tion and we have nothing to apalogize for. But we don't want to abuse anybody. We want to go out and argue these questions. The people will listen' to you. We want no villifying and abuse. We want to go out fighting for the right and per suade men's reason and win a victory. We must win -or go down to ruin. We can not divide on Cleveland and the State ticket. They can't be divorced. If so how can we stand against the powerful arrogant cunning, audacious Republican party ? We are in the positions of two farmers who sit still and dispute about which should be plowed first corn or cotton and while they dispute the crop is ruined. The Third Party people want Financial Reform and we want Tax Reform (and this includes both) Now aint that foolish ? Wouldn't you call these two farmers fools ? Shall we be children ? Have we all become children at the end of this enlightened 19th century? Not many days ago one of the men in Wayne said : "We are going to have more money or an earthquake." We had one earthquake and did you get any money t I hese 1 hird rarty folks remind me of an Onslow coun ty man who went out to feed his hogs before breakfast. As he finished a bear tackled him and they went at it hot and heavy. His wife called him to come to breakfast. He called to her "1 want to come, but this bear won't let me!" The Third Party men have prepared a sumptu ous repast, with a $10 bill at each plate, but, bless your life, we can't come ; we are too busy fighting the Republican bear. We want to go. We want to go out and tell people the truth about taxes we pay on ac count of the tariff and bring them back to us compel them to come. I'll talk about this tax because we are right about it, and our people are determined to be free. I was talking with a Third Party man in my county, the other day and I put him in a hole. He won't get out until after election. He was talking about more money. Four years ago I was talking about the surplus in the Treasury and John R. Smith in Goldsboro said to me : "Don't let that trouble you, Aycock. Just let us get in and we'll dispose of it" And they did! The circulation has increased all along. In 1890 the Sherman act was passed and the Government was compelled to coin 54,000,000 ounces of silver annually. Have you got any more ? Isn't cot ton still low lower than since the war ? I'll tell you what is responsi ble : The McKinley tariff did it ! How ? England and the countries that buy our cotton said to us, we have the power to fix the price of the cotton we buv from vou and if you tax our articles we will put down the price of your cotton proportion ately to even up things. They did it, and I charge the Republican party with shilfting the burden upon you upon our Southern farmers, be cause it falls heaviest on cotton grow ers. You see how it works. Fellow citizens, deep issues are at stake. I urge you to go to work. You can and will elect the whole ticket, but you must do it with truth. Suppose we divide and lose the leg islature to the Republicans. When the Democratic party came into pow er in the State it found an indebted ness of $42,000,000 saddled upon us by the Republican party. We have paid $34,000,000 of that debt, and we are taking care of the balance. Can we trust them again ? No ! We must not do it. Every effort of my life . will be to prevent it. MAN'S MORTALITY. The following beautiful poem is justly considered a literary gem of the highest order. The original is found in an Irish MS. in Trinity College, Dublin. There is reason to think that the poem was written by one of those primitive Christian bards in the reign of King Diarmid, about the year 554, and was sung or chanted at the last grand assembly of kings, chieftians and bards ever held in the famous halls of Tara. The trans lation is by the learned Dr. O' Dono van : Like a damask rose you see, Or like a blossom on a tree, Or like the dainty flower in May, Or like the morning to the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonah had, Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out and out and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth The flower fades, the morning hasteth The sunsets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, the man he dies. Like the grass that's newly sprung, Or like the tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here to-day, Or like the pearled dew in May, Or lire an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of the swan. Lven such is man, who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life or death. The grass withers, the tale is ended, The bird is flown, the dew's ascended, The hour is short, the span not long. The swan's near death, man's life is done. Like the bubble in the brook. Or in a glass much like a look, Or like the shuttle in the weaver's hand, Or like the writing on the sand, Or like a thought, or like a dream, Or like the gliding of the stream, Even such is man, who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life and death. The bubble's out, the look forgot, The shuttle's flung the writing's blot, The thought is past, the dream is gone The waters glide, man's life is done. Like to an arrow from the bow, Or like swift courses of water flow, Or like that time 'twixt flood and ebb, Or like the spider's tender web, Or like a race, or like a goal, Or like the dealing of a dole, Even such is man, whose brittle state Is always subject unto fate The arrow's shot, the flood soon spent The time no time, the web soon rent, The race is run, the goal soon won, The dole soon dealt, man's life soon done. Like to the lightning in the sky, Or like a post that quick doth hie, (Jr. Wee a quiver in a song, Or like a journey three days long, Or like a snow when summer's gone, Or like a pear, or like a plum, Even such is man, who heaps up sorrow Lives but this day, and dies to-morrow The lightning's past, the post must go The song is short, the journey so, The pear doth rot, the plum doth fall The snow dissolves, and so must all. The fpoetical legend that the swan sings as it is dying. 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