Poem for the day

Like to the falling of a star;
Or as the flights of eagles are;
Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue;
Or silver drops of morning dew;
Or like a wind that chafes the flood;
Or bubbles wich on water stood;
Even such is man, whose borrowed light
Is straight called in, and paid to night.


The wind blows out; the bubble dies;
The spring entombed in Autumn lies;
The dew dries up; the star is shot;
The flight is past; and man fort.