Poems and Songs by Thomas Flatman. The Fourth Edition with many Additions and Amendments |
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JOB.
Few be the days that feeble man must breath,
Yet frequent Troubles antedate his death:
Gay like a flow'r he comes, which newly grown,
Fades of it self, or is untimely mown:
Like a thin Aëry shadow does he flie,
Lengthning and shortning still until he die.
And does Jehovah think on such a one,
Does he behold him from his mighty Throne?
Will he contend with such a worthless thing,
Or Dust and Ashes into Judgment bring?
Yet frequent Troubles antedate his death:
Gay like a flow'r he comes, which newly grown,
Fades of it self, or is untimely mown:
Like a thin Aëry shadow does he flie,
Lengthning and shortning still until he die.
And does Jehovah think on such a one,
Does he behold him from his mighty Throne?
Will he contend with such a worthless thing,
Or Dust and Ashes into Judgment bring?
Unclean, unclean is man ev'n from the Womb,
Unclean he falls into his drowzy Tomb.
Surely, he cannot answer God, nor be
Accounted pure, before such purity.
Unclean he falls into his drowzy Tomb.
Surely, he cannot answer God, nor be
Accounted pure, before such purity.
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