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A pretty, rainbow sort of life enough; Filled up with vanities and gay caprice: Such life is like the garden at Versailles, Where all is artificial; and the stream Is held in marble basins, or sent up Amid the fretted air, in waterfalls; Fantastic, sparkling; and the element, The mighty element, a moment's toy; And, like all toys, ephemeral.