1. Know that fate ever plays tricks and ruin brings,
So how long, methinks, shall we see such strange things?

2. It tries hard friendships, sund'ring each from each,
And parts dear neighbors, leaving breach on breach.

3. If we had but seen, what time the night did chase
The day, the day the night, in headlong race,

4. How fast they haste by every living soul,
Erasing trace and mark of young and old-

5. Men were not equal when the race began;
God made them different types in His wise plan.

6. Who learns life's lessons will increasing know
How little learning profits man below.