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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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He that can calmly view the mask of death,
Will never tremble at the face beneath:
Probationer of Heav'n, be starts no more
To see the last sands ebb, than those before .
 

Death, when compared to life, seems to be a remedy and not a punishment.” St. Macar.

On the same point another Primitive Christian hath observed, “That the Supreme Being made life short; since, as the troubles of it cannot be removed from us, we may the sooner be removed from them.” St. Bernard.