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Poems

By Thomas Philipott

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On a Gentlewoman dying in Child-bed of an abortive Daughter.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

On a Gentlewoman dying in Child-bed of an abortive Daughter.

What neare alliance was between the grave
Of this dead infant, and the place that gave
First life to't? Here was a sad mysterie
Work'd up it selfe, both Life and Death, we see,
Were Inmates in one house, making the womb,
At once become a Birth-place and a Tomb?
The mother too, as if she meant t'improve,
In everie fatall circumstance her love,
When this unpollisht infant di'd, her breath
Resign'd, that she might wait on it in death:
And in one Monument might sleep by her,
To whom before she was a Sepulcher.