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FROM POETRY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY .
AGAINST THE FEAR OP' DEATH .
BY SIR KOBEET HOWAED . SINCE all must certainly to death resign , Why should we make it dreadful , or repine ? How vain is fear where nothing can prevent The loss which he that loses can't lament The fear of death is by our folly
brought—We fly the acquaintance of it hi a thought ; From something into nothing is a change Grown terrible by making it so strange . We always should remember death is sure—What grows familiar most , we best endure : For life and death succeed like night and day , And neither gives increasenor brings decay .
, No more or less by what takes birth or dies , And the same mass the teeming world supplies . From death we rose to life ; 'tis but the same , Through life again to pass from whence we came . With shame we sec our passions can prevail Where reason , certainty , and virtue fail . Honourthat empty namecan death despise ;'
, , Scorn'd love to death as to a refuge flies , And sorrow waits for death with longing eyes . Hope triumphs o ' er the thought of death and fate Cheats fools , and flatters the unfortunate .
Perhaps , deceived by lust-supplying wealth , Now enjoyed pleasures , and a present health , We fear to lose what a small time must waste , 'Till life itself grows the disease at last : . Begging for life , we beg for more decay , And to be long a dying only pray .
No just and temperate thought can tell us why We should fear death , or grieve for them that die ; The time Ave leave behind is ours no more , Nor our concern , than time that was before ; 'Twere a fond sight , if those that stay behind For the same passagewaiting for the wind
, To drive them to their port , should on the shore Lamenting stand for those that went before . We all must pass thro' death's dead sea of night , To reach the haven of eternal light .
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FROM POETRY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY .
AGAINST THE FEAR OP' DEATH .
BY SIR KOBEET HOWAED . SINCE all must certainly to death resign , Why should we make it dreadful , or repine ? How vain is fear where nothing can prevent The loss which he that loses can't lament The fear of death is by our folly
brought—We fly the acquaintance of it hi a thought ; From something into nothing is a change Grown terrible by making it so strange . We always should remember death is sure—What grows familiar most , we best endure : For life and death succeed like night and day , And neither gives increasenor brings decay .
, No more or less by what takes birth or dies , And the same mass the teeming world supplies . From death we rose to life ; 'tis but the same , Through life again to pass from whence we came . With shame we sec our passions can prevail Where reason , certainty , and virtue fail . Honourthat empty namecan death despise ;'
, , Scorn'd love to death as to a refuge flies , And sorrow waits for death with longing eyes . Hope triumphs o ' er the thought of death and fate Cheats fools , and flatters the unfortunate .
Perhaps , deceived by lust-supplying wealth , Now enjoyed pleasures , and a present health , We fear to lose what a small time must waste , 'Till life itself grows the disease at last : . Begging for life , we beg for more decay , And to be long a dying only pray .
No just and temperate thought can tell us why We should fear death , or grieve for them that die ; The time Ave leave behind is ours no more , Nor our concern , than time that was before ; 'Twere a fond sight , if those that stay behind For the same passagewaiting for the wind
, To drive them to their port , should on the shore Lamenting stand for those that went before . We all must pass thro' death's dead sea of night , To reach the haven of eternal light .