<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537838" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1787</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While thirteen moons saw smoothly run<br>The Nen's barge-laden wave,<br>All these, life's rambling journey done,<br>Have found their home, the grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was man (frail always) made more frail<br>Than in foregoing years?<br>Did famine or did plague prevail,<br>That so much death appears?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No; these were vigorous as their sires,<br>Nor plague nor famine came;<br>This annual tribute Death requires,<br>And never waives his claim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like crowded forest-trees we stand,<br>And some are marked to fall;<br>The axe will smite at God's command,<br>And soon shall smite us all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Green as the bay tree, ever green,<br>WIth its new foliage on, <br>The gay, the thoughtless, have I seen,<br>I passed, -- and they were gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Read, ye that run, the awful truth<br>With which I charge my page!<br>A worm is in the bud of youth,<br>And at the root of age.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No present health can health insure<br>For yet an hour to come;<br>No meicine, though it oft can cure<br>Can always balk the tomb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And oh! that humble as my lot,<br>And scorned as is my strain,<br>These truths, though known, too much forgot,<br>I may not teach in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So prays your Clerk with all his heart,<br>And, ere he quits the pen,<br>Begs you for once to take his part,<br>And answer all -- Amen!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537838" data-title="Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1787" data-description="While thirteen moons saw smoothly run The Nen's barge-laden wave, All these, life's rambling journey done, Have found their home, the grave. Was man (frail always) made more frail Than in foregoing years? Did famine or did plague prevail, That so..."></div> </div> </div>

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