Poem by Fulke Greville Brooke

Caelica 83. You that seek what life is in death

You that seek what life is in death,
Now find it air that once was breath.
New names unknown, old names gone:
Till time end bodies, but souls none.
            Reader! then make time, while you be,
            But steps to your eternity.

1. Caelica 12. Cupid, thou naughty boy, when thou wert loathed
2. Caelica 16. Fie, foolish earth, think you the heaven wants glory
3. Elegy for Philip Sidney
4. Caelica 29. The nurse-life wheat within his green husk growing
5. Caelica 4. You little stars that live in skies

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