Certaine Serious Thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry Occasions have stollen themselves into Verse and now into the Publike View from the Author: Together w[i]th a Chronologicall table denoeting the names of such Princes as ruled the neighbor States and were con-temporary to our English Kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned [by Christopher Wyvill] |
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Going to Bed.
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Going to Bed.
Thus, on a pale sheete, I extended, shallBecome ere long a livelesse coarse, and all
These too-much prized trifles, which retard
My soule in her best flights, without regard
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Where all things are forgotten, I shall have
A coole and lonely lodging, by the earth
Lock't-up from all this worlds mis-called mirth.
If thou, O blest Creator, shalt restore
The peace, ease, plenty we injoy'd before,
Let not those over-valued blessings move
Our earth-bred thoughts to sleight the things above.
Her's no abiding City: but thy grace
May make the house of death a resting place.
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