ILL busi'd man! why should'st thou take such care               #13
            To lengthen out thy life's short calendar?
            When ev'ry spectacle thou lookst upon
            Presents and acts thy execution.
                  Each drooping season and each flower doth cry,
                  "Fool! as I fade and wither, thou must die.

            "The beating of thy pulse (when thou art well)
            Is just the tolling of thy Passing Bell:
            Night is thy Hearse, whose sable Canopy
            Covers alike deceased day and thee.
                  And all those weeping dews which nightly fall,
                  Are but the tears shed for thy funeral."
                                        --Henry King, Bishop of Chichester     CONTINUE TO #14

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