<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529278" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epitaph for Maria Wentworth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here the precious dust is laid; <br>Whose purely-temper'd clay was made <br>So fine that it the guest betray'd. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Else the soul grew so fast within, <br>It broke the outward shell of sin, <br>And so was hatch'd a cherubin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In height, it soar'd to God above; <br>In depth, it did to knowledge move, <br>And spread in breadth to general love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before, a pious duty shin'd <br>To parents, courtesy behind; <br>On either side an equal mind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good to the poor, to kindred dear, <br>To servants kind, to friendship clear, <br>To nothing but herself severe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, though a virgin, yet a bride <br>To ev'ry grace, she justified <br>A chaste polygamy, and died. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Learn from hence, reader, what small trust <br>We owe this world, where virtue must, <br>Frail as our flesh, crumble to dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Carew">Thomas Carew</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=529278" data-title="Epitaph for Maria Wentworth de Thomas Carew" data-description="And here the precious dust is laid; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made So fine that it the guest betray'd. Else the soul grew so fast within, It broke the outward shell of sin, And so was hatch'd a cherubin. In height, it soar'd to God ab..."></div> </div> </div>

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