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Occasional verse, moral and sacred

Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet]

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THE FOUR IMPORTANT THINGS,

AN EPIGRAM.

Time, life, and death, with judgment yet to come,
Demand our notice, as they fix its doom:
Why then contemn'd, when to complete the cost,
Perdition follows, and then all is lost!