English poem
SONG. (MAN's a poor deluded bubble)
by Robert Dodsley (1704–1764)
MAN's a poor deluded bubble, Wandering in a mist of lies, Seeing false, or seeing double, Who wou'd trust to such weak eyes?
Yet presuming on his senses, On he goes most wond'rous wise: Doubts of truth, believes pretences; Lost in error, lives and dies,