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Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.

Samuel Johnson
Toil, Comfort, Aging
'On the Death of Dr Robert Levet' (1783)
Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.