In line 2 of "The Swan Flies Away," the speaker infers that the world is but a temporary setting for one's physical state.
The second line of the poem is "Spectacle of the world will be a mere fair." In this case the words "mere fair" help us answer the question. Mere is defined as something very small. Perhaps, the author used the word "fair" to refer to a trip, like when you pay a bus fare. So, essentially the author is saying that the world is just a short t
