Their day and minute set to die.
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5 A Miracle Demanded HIS life is like a tree that flourishethWith fruit and flower, gay leaf andsprouting twig;But pestilence is in the wind’s warm breath,And at the roots the worms and mice growbig.The gardener, steady in his anxious claims,Who prunes for love, he says, and not forwage,Than simple care has more disastrous names,The most elect: Disease, Death, and Old Age.
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