Social Commentaries
The necessity of Respiration
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
As humane bodies are conserv'd by breath,
So must our Soules too in a sort respire,
Send sighes and prayers out from hearts entire,
And draw in quickning grace, else looke for Death.
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