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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396326" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mortification</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How soon doth man decay!<br>When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets<br>To swaddle infants, whose young breath<br>Scarce knows the way;<br>Those clouts are little winding-sheets,<br>Which do consign and send them unto Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When boyes go first to bed,<br>They step into their voluntarie graves;<br>Sleep binds them fast; onely their breath<br>Makes them not dead:<br>Successive nights, like rolling waves,<br>Convey them quickly who are bound for Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Youth is frank and free,<br>And calls for musick, while his veins do swell,<br>All day exchanging mirth and breath<br>In companie,<br>That musick summons to the knell<br>Which shall befriend him at the house of Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When man grows staid and wise,<br>Getting a house and home, where he may move<br>Within the circle of his breath,<br>Schooling his eyes,<br>That dumbe inclosure maketh love<br>Unto the coffin, that attends his death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Age grows low and weak,<br>Marking his grave, and thawing ev'ry year,<br>Till all do melt and drown his breath<br>When he would speak,<br>A chair or litter shows the biere<br>Which shall convey him to the house of Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man, ere he is aware,<br>Hath put together a solemnitie,<br>And drest his hearse, while he has breath<br>As yet to spare;<br>Yet, Lord, instruct us so to die,<br>That all these dyings may be LIFE in DEATH.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Herbert">George Herbert</a><div class=q>
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When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets
To swaddle infants, whose young breath
Scarce knows the way;
Those clouts are little winding-sheets,
Which do consign and send them unto Death.

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