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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth


LEt none be proud of life: nor thinke, that longer
He then another will, because he's younger,
Enjoy his pleasures; for though old age stand
A great way off, death alwaies is at hand;
Who (without taking heed to time, or yeares)
No Living creature spares, when she appeares.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
  2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
  3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
  4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 36. The different fruits of idlenesse, and vertue in young men
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 6. To one, whom poverty was to be wished for, in so farre, as he could hardly otherwise be restrained from excessive ryot, and feasting


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