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Charles Bucke (16 April 1781 – 31 July 1846) was an English writer who, despite being poor most of his life, still managed to produce roughly eleven different works, each varying in number of volumes and topics. Little was recorded concerning the life of Mr. Bucke, but he is remembered for a dispute with the actor Edmund Kean. He worked for over thirty years on his publications, often recalling them repeatedly to re-edit them. This caused some of the same works to be published under different titles, most notably his two-volume series "The Philosophy of Nature, or the Influence of Scenery on the Heart and Mind", which he later expanded to four volumes under the title "On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature".)

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Canzonet

The days of our happiness gliding away,
A year seems a moment, and ages a day;
But Fortune converting our smiles into tears,
What an age a diminutive moment appears!
But Fortune, &c., &c.
Oh! Fortune,—possess'd of so fickle a name—
Why only in this art thou ever the same?
Oh change!—and bid moments of pleasure move slow,
And give eagle plumes to the pinions of woe.
Oh change! &c., &c.

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