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Today’s Poem: Vanitas Vanitatum

Today’s Poem: Vanitas Vanitatum

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

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Gustave Doré, etching of King Solomon, 1866 (Wikimedia Commons)

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