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Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there, / Ye restless thoughts and busy purposes / Of the idle brain, which the world's livery wear? / O thou quick heart, which pantest to possess / All that pale Expectation feigneth fair! / Thou vainly curious mind which wouldest guess / Whence thou didst come, and whither thou must go, / And all that never yet was known would know- / Oh, whither hasten ye, that thus ye press, / With such swift feet life's green and pleasant path, / Seeking, alike from happiness and woe, / A refuge in the cavern of gray death? / O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you / Hope to inherit in the grave below?