11. Or like a bird flying through the air;no evidence of its course is to be found—But the fluid air, lashed by the beating of pinions,and cleft by the rushing forceOf speeding wings, is traversed;and afterward no mark of passage can be found in it.
12. Or as, when an arrow has been shot at a mark,the parted air straightway flows together againso that none discerns the way it went—
13. Even so, once born, we abruptly came to noughtand held no sign of virtue to display,but were consumed in our wickedness.”