Artist: Samuel Johnson
Lyrics of Artist: Samuel Johnson
  1. [Lyric] The Vanity of Human Wishes (Samuel Johnson)

    THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life; Then say how Hope and Fear, Desire and Hate, O'er spread with Snares the clouded Maze of Fate, Where wav'ring Man, betray'd by vent'rous Pride, To tread the...Learn More
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