Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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AN EXTEMPORE REFLECTION
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AN EXTEMPORE REFLECTION
On the Death of Two Famous Architects.
No more remember'd, and no longer sought,The heads that plann'd, or lab'ring hands that wrought:
Their time a moment, and their name a day,
Like their own works, they flourish'd to decay.
So moulders all that human art can do,
Its wit contrive, or vanity pursue:
E'en Nature's works to their own period tend;
Begun from nothing, in that nothing end!
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