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So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
Sir, my circumstances,
Being so near the truth as I will make them,
Must first induce you read more
Sir, my circumstances,
Being so near the truth as I will make them,
Must first induce you to believe; whose strength
I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not
You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find
You need it not.
It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
Odd instances of strange coincidence.
Odd instances of strange coincidence.
Who does the best that circumstance allows,
Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.
Who does the best that circumstance allows,
Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils, with a critch-like read more
And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,
Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.
Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
