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I said of laughter, it is vain. / Of mirth I said, what profits it? / Therefore I found a book, and writ / Therein how ease and also pain, / How health and sickness, every one / Is vanity beneath the sun.
Man walks in a vain shadow; he / Disquieteth himself in vain. / The things that were shall be again. / The rivers do not fill the sea, / But turn back to their secret source; / The winds too turn upon their course.