Level Land C.M.
By Robert Kelley
- Key
- F♯ minor
- Type
- Plain tune
- Time signature
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3
4 - Composed
- 2010
- Text
- R.T. Kelley, paraphrase of Eccl. Ch. 1, 2010
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Text
There is no new thing 'neath the Sun,
No work of man is new.
For all is vanity and dust,
Our right acts are too few.
All rivers run into the sea,
Yet never fill it o'er.
Unto the place whence rivers come
The flood is e'er restored.
I gave my heart to seek and search
Out all that's here below:
All wisdom knew and folly too,
Their end's the same, it's woe.
For in much wisdom is much grief
No learning gives relief;
And he who gains more knowledge sees
His sorrows all increase.