At his birth a human being enters on the scene
of life, draws a breath
of air, beginning the process
of living with a cry
of pain, pays the tribute
of a
tear to Nature,
just tastes life's
sorrows before any sweets have been his, and before his joints have consolidated, tender as he is, he dies, perhaps because he was left exposed as a newborn child, or because he has suffocated, or because some illness has suddenly put a stop to his life.