The narrator muses here on lives lived and energies spent. He talks of riches, luxury, and enjoying what life has to offer as being fleeting pleasures. Even relationships have beginnings and endings. There is a cycle to life and a flow to humankind's activities that they are often unaware of or choose to ignore. The river of Time continues to flow to its inexorable end.
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