Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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On Life and Death. |
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On Life and Death.
The life I live on Earth uncertain is,Being attended with a certain death,
Which will produce eternal Bane, or Bliss,
Waiting the expiration of my breath.
It doth behove me then to have a care
How I my short and pretious time do spend,
Lest I, through sin, be trapt in Satan's snare;
Griefs then beginning when my life doth end.
Lord, grant as Life and Death do here begin,
My Life may be to grace, my Death to sin.
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