9. All of them passed like a shadowand like a fleeting rumor;
10. Like a ship traversing the heaving water:when it has passed, no trace can be found,no path of its keel in the waves.
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.