What constitutes a State

What is life? 'tis but a vapour

What shall I do, lest life in silence pass?

Where is the fame

Yet once more saith the fool, yet once more, and is it not a

little one

Ye say they all have passed away

Your voiceless lips, O flowers! are living preachers

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