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The Amaranth

Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte]

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MORAL.

Who puts off Death, to the last moments driv'n,
Is near the Grave, but very far from Heav'n .
He who repents, and gains the wish'd reprieve,
Was fit to die, and is more fit to live.
Chuse a good convoy in an hostile course;
Right foresight never makes a danger worse.
 

A saying of pious Jeremy Taylor.