But what most showed the vanity of life Was to behold the n… - James Thomson

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But what most showed the vanity of life
Was to behold the nations all on fire.

James Thomson

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James Thomson (September 11, 1700 – August 27, 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright.

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Alternative Names: James Thomſon

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An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls,
Boils round the naked melancholy isles
Of farthest Thulè, and th' Atlantic surge
Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.

Sighed and looked unutterable things.

But what most showed the vanity of life Was to behold the nations all on fire. - James Thomson

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