Versos English Robert Dodsley SONG. (MAN's a poor deluded bubble)

English poem

SONG. (MAN's a poor deluded bubble)

by (1704–1764)

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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,