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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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142. Mans Perfection.

'Tis the Perfection of every thing,
To return to that, whence it first did spring.
Frail flesh, will my accomplishment adjourn;
Till I to Earth, and Heaven shall return.