A paraphrase vpon the divine poems By George Sandys |
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 | A paraphrase vpon the divine poems |  |
Psalme XLIX.
[All you who dwell upon the foodfull Earth]
[Part 1.]
All you who dwell upon the foodfull Earth;Both Rich and Poore; of base and noble birth;
Attend: my Tongue deep wisdome shall impart;
And knowledge from the fountaine of my heart.
I unto light darke Parables will bring,
And to my solemne Harpe Ænigmaes sing.
In Misery and Age why should I feare,
When Sin pursues my steps, and Death draws neare?
O you, who Riches as your God adore,
And glory in your scarce possessed Store:
VVho can redeeme his Brother for one Day,
Or to the Lord his high-pris'd Ransome pay?
(For O, not all the Gold, which Streames conceale,
Or Hils inclose, can banisht Life repeale,)
That he might live unto Eternity,
Nor in the Earths corrupting Entrailes lye.
They see the Wise, and Fooles, to Death descend,
While others their congested treasures spend:
Yet hoping to perpetuate their fame,
Proud Structures raise, and call them by their Name.
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But Man in honour is a Vanitie,That fleets away; and as a Beast must die.
In this vaine course, they circularly move,
And their Posterity their words approve.
Death shall as Sheep devour them in the Dust;
Till that great Day subject them to the Just.
Their Strength and Beauty shall to nothing wast:
All naked, from their sumptuous Houses cast.
But God shall from the greedy Sepulchre
My Soule redeeme, and to his Joyes preferre.
Despaire not, when a man growes Opulent,
And that the Glories of his House augment:
For with his thread of Life his Riches end;
Nor shall his Honours with his Soule descend.
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And those are prais'd, who their owne Genius please;
Yet as his Fathers, he shall set in Night;
Nor ever rise to see the cheerfull Light.
Man high in honour, whose ignoble brest
No knowledge holds, shall perish like a beast.
| A paraphrase vpon the divine poems | |