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HEBREW MELODIES.
"ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER."
I. Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine, And health and youth possess'd me; My goblets blush'd from every vine, And lovely forms caress'd me;
I sunn'd my heart in beauty's eyes, And felt my soul grow tender; All earth can give, or mortal prize, Was mine of regal splendour.
