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Clarastella

Together with Poems occasional, Elegies, Epigrams, Satyrs. By Robert Heath
Heath, Robert (fl. 1636-1659)

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To my honoured friend Mr R.H. on his rich Poems and Satyrs.
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POEMS, &c.
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Occasional POEMS
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ELEGIES.
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EPIGRAMS.
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SATYRS.

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Epitaph on a Poor Alchymist.

The ashes of a Golden Ass,
Not worth a monument of brass,
Or Chymist subtle as his gold
Reader this earthen urn doth hold;
Who, his gold vanisht all to air
And dear-bought cinders, through despair
And Deaths more certain Chimestrie,
The Quintessence of Fool did die,
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Thus sublimated and calcin'd
To nothing, but poor dust refin'd.
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