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Adagio - All Is Vanity (BWV 1052-II)
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Look where you will, you see only vanity on Earth
Build today, tear down tomorrow
Where towns now stand there will be meadows
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Splendid flow'rs soon trodden down
What struts and preens becomes ash and bone
Nothing can be eternal, no marble stone, no metal
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Fortune smiles now, but soon hardships threaten
The fame of great deeds must be like a fleeting dream
Why should as time's plaything, frivolous, endure at all?
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Oh! What is all this that we regard as precious
But worthless nothingness, than shadows, dust and wind?
What is all this but a wild flower that cannot be found again
That which is eternal yet no human wills to see?
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