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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537842" 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 1792</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thankless for favours from on high,<br>Man thinks he fades too soon;<br>Though 'tis his privilege to die,<br>Would he improve the boon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But he, not wise enough to scan<br>His blest concerns aright,<br>Would gladly stretch life's little span<br>To ages, if he might;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To ages in a world of pain, <br>To ages, where he goes<br>Galled by affliction's heavy chain,<br>And hopeless of repose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strange fondness of the human heart,<br>Enamoured of its harm!<br>Strange world, that costs it so much smart,<br>And still has power to charm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whence has the world her magic power?<br>Why deem we death a foe?<br>Recoil from weary life's best hour,<br>And covet longer woe?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cause is Conscience :-- Conscience oft <br>Her tale of guilt renews;<br>Her voice is terrible though soft,<br>And dread of death ensues.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then anxious to be longer spared,<br>Man mourns his fleeting breath:<br>All evils then seem light compared<br>With the approach of Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis judgement shakes him; there's the fear<br>That prompts the wish to stay:<br>He has incurred a long arrear,<br>And must despair to pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pay? --follow Christ, and all is paid; <br>His death your peace ensures;<br>Think on the grave where he was laid,<br>And calm descend to yours.</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>
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Man thinks he fades too soon;
Though 'tis his privilege to die,
Would he improve the boon.

But he, not wise enough to scan
His blest concerns aright,
Would gladly stretch life's little span
To ages, if he might..."></div>
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