"
Once more he read from the book:
"What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the
sun?"
"One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the
earth abideth for ever."
"The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down and hasteth to his place
where he arose."
"The wind goeth toward the south and turneth about unto the north: it
whirleth about continually; and the wind returneth again according to
his circuits."
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; there is nothing
new under the sun."
"There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come
after."
"I, the Preacher, was King over Israel in Jerusalem."
"I, the Preacher, was King!" He shouted out these last words, as in
vehement anger and despair, and then looked round in alarm, fearing
lest some one should have heard him. Then he took a sheet of paper and
began to write."
"I here begin this document which will end with my decease."
"Bah! how absurd it sounds!" he exclaimed as he pushed the paper from
him with such violence that it fell to the floor.
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