O impotence of man's frail mind To fate and to the future blind, Presumptuous and o'erweening still When Fortune follows at its will! (John Conington)

O impotence of man's frail mind To fate and to the future blind, Presumptuous and o'erweening still When Fortune follows at its will!

John Conington

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