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Divine Fancies

Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles
  
  
  

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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.