Social Commentaries
On the Spheares
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
What are those ever-turning heavenly Spheares,
But Wheeles, (that from our Cradles to our Urnes)
Winde up our threads of Life, that hourely weares?
And they that soonest dye, have happiest turnes.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On the Spheares.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/4/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On the Spheares.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/4/.
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