Social Commentaries
Seths Pillars
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Seths famous Pillars, that inscribed stood
With Learning and Religion, scap'd the floud:
For (though both Gold and Silver feele decay)
Faire knowledge may be clipt, nere washt away.
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