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He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
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Verse 2. Shadow. Pulvis et umbra sumus. Hor. iv. Ode 7. “Come then, ye men, whom nature condemns to spend your days in darkness, ye who resemble the leaves, are of little strength, formed of mud, shadow-like, … of a day’s duration, miserable mortals, men like dreams, attend to the immortals.” Aristoph. Avib.—Most of these expressions occur in Job, Psalms 101:12. Wisd. 2:5. Eccle. 2:23. and so forth
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