XL.

And young beginners may as well commence

With quiet cruising o'er the ocean, Woman;

While those who are not beginners should have sense

Enough to make for port, ere Time shall summon

With his grey signal-flag; and the past tense,

The dreary Fuimus of all things human,

Must be declined, while Life's thin thread's spun out

Between the gaping heir and gnawing gout.

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