Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,—

Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;

Another race the following spring supplies:

They fall successive, and successive rise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 181.

Than a successive title long and dark,

Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 301.