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Divine Fancies
Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)
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Divine Fancies
58.
On an Hower-glasse
.
Mans
life is like an
Hower-glasse
, wherein
Each severall
sand
that passes is a Sin;
And when the latest
sand
is spent and run;
Our
Sinnes
are finisht, as our
lives
are done.
Divine Fancies