Social Commentaries
An adumbration of Mans life
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
As't pleas'd the Father of all lights, he made
Man as a Gnomon, and his life the shade:
Which, when it hath bin this and that way throwne
In any projects, with a breath is gone.
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