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WE ARE BORN EVERY DAY by PALLADAS

First Line: FROM DAY TO DAY WE ARE BORN, AS EACH NIGHT WANES
Last Line: OF YEARS GONE BY YOU KEEP NO HERITAGE.
Subject(s): TRANSIENCE; IMPERMANENCE;
FROM day to day we are born, as each night wanes,
And nothing of our former life remains.
The alien course of yesterday is run;
What life we have this morning is begun.
Say not, old man, that you are rich in age:
Of years gone by you keep no heritage.



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