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...nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; ^\ Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite:...stage; And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble still, -asthat before; Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er!...

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...folly: the first is a harmless instinct, the other a culpable vanity. Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...: Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, 281 Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those...

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