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Posterity with all its eyes / Will come and view him where he lies.
Then, turning from the scene away / With a concerted shrug, will say: / "H'm, Scarabaeus Sisyphus -- / What interest has that to us? / We can't admire at all, at all, / A tumble-bug without its ball." / And then a sage will rise and say: / "Good friends, you err -- turn back, I pray: / This freak that you unwisely shun / Is bug and ball rolled into one."