How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
Do I know what rhetorical means?
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
A companion's words of persuasion are effective.