Frail Mortality
Nosce Teipsum
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Spew out thy filth, thy flesh abjure Let not contingents thee defile For transients only are impure And aery things thy soul beguile The soul, escaped the slavish trade (Of mortal life) for in this earthly frame Manifold motions, making little speed, To deform and kill the things whereon we feed Eternal, boundless, undecayed A thought unseen but seeing all All in earth or skies displayed Shall it survey, shall it recall Each fainter trace that memory holds So darkly of departed years In one broad glance the soul beholds And all that was at once appears This world's a bubble and the life of a man Less than a span In his conception, wretched from the womb So to the tomb Who then to frail immortality shall trust But limns on water or but writes in the dust Cursed from the cradle and brought up to years With cares and with fears Yet whilst with sorrow here we live oppressed What life is best? Our own affections, still at home to please Is a disease Wars with their noise frighten us when they cease We are worse in peace Who then to frail immortality shall trust But limns on water or but writes in the dust What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, or being born to die
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