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a life that commonly issues so miserably,
and whose usufruct is so barren,
and which really amounts to so little,
after the passions have had their
fill, and the glamour of youth
has passed over into the dreary scenes
of autumn – an autumn whose husks rattle, &
whose dried and shriveled leaves
float off into the forsaken & the un-
-known.

That men passing
through the checkered scenes
of our mortality, even in the
lands of the finer civilization
and more advanced culture,
with this sub-sumption [subsumption] at the