Daemen University - Summit Yearbook (Amherst, NY)

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noR can these elements stand at a stay, But By exchanging alteR eveRy day. th’ eteRnal woRld fouR Bodies compRehends ingend’Ring all. the heavy eaRth descends, so wateR, clogg’d with weight? two, light, aspiRe, depResst By none, puRe aiR and puReR fiRe. and, though they have theiR seveRal seats, yet all of these aRe made, to these again they fall. Resolved eaRth to wateR RaRifies? to aiR extenuated wateRs Rise? the aiR, when it itself again Refines, to elemental fme extRacted shines. they in like oRdeR Back again RepaiR-. the gRosseR fiRe condenseth into aiR? aiR into wateR, wateR, thick’ning, then gRows solid and conveRts to eaRth again. none holds his own= foR natuRe eveR joys in change and with new foRms the old supplies. in all the woRld not any peRish quite, But only aRe in vaRious haBits dight: foR, to Begin to Be what we BefoRe weRe not, is to Be BORn-, to die, no moRe than ceasing to Be such, although the fRame Be changeaBle, the susstance is the same. OVID