Poems on Several Occasions By Edward, Lord Thurlow. The Second Edition, considerably enlarged |
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[To make requital of the passed time]
To make requital of the passed time,And purge my sprite from blemish and delay,
I fortify myself with acts sublime,
Which yet in meditation have but sway:
Already I my future years have liv'd,
And phantasy hath made a mate of toil,
But when I shall the Season have surviv'd,
My soul may be ungifted of her spoil:
For, be it as it may, this life is lost
In purpose, till the purpos'd end be past;
By accident or ill we still are crost,
But waken from our golden dream at last,
To find beside our idle slumbers stand
Old Age, and Death, by which our worth is scann'd.
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