<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MORTALITY, behold and fear! <br>What a change of flesh is here! <br>Think how many royal bones <br>Sleep within this heap of stones: <br>Here they lie had realms and lands, <br>Who now want strength to stir their hands: <br>Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust <br>They preach, 'In greatness is no trust.' <br>Here 's an acre sown indeed <br>With the richest, royall'st seed <br>That the earth did e'er suck in <br>Since the first man died for sin: <br>Here the bones of birth have cried-- <br>'Though gods they were, as men they died.' <br>Here are sands, ignoble things, <br>Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings; <br>Here 's a world of pomp and state, <br>Buried in dust, once dead by fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Beaumont">Francis Beaumont</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391877" data-title="On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey de Francis Beaumont" data-description="MORTALITY, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones: Here they lie had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands: Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust..."></div> </div> </div>

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