Epitaph Katherine Philips 00:00:03 What on Earth deserves our trust ? Youth and Beauty both are dust. Long we gathering are with pain, What one moment calls again. 00:00:12 Seven years childless, marriage past, A Son, a son is born at last : So exactly lim'd and fair. 00:00:19 Full of good Spirits, Meen, and Air, As a long life promised, Yet, in less than six weeks dead. 00:00:25 Too promising, too great a mind In so small room to be confin'd : Therefore, as fit in Heav'n to dwell, He quickly broke the Prison shell. 00:00:34 So the subtle Alchimist, Can't with Hermes Seal resist The powerful spirit's subtler flight, But t'will bid him long good night. 00:00:42 And so the Sun if it arise Half so glorious as his Eyes, Like this Infant, takes a shrowd, Buried in a morning Cloud. Other Works by Katherine Philipps: th-cam.com/play/PLLcqOmaaYeMpfeVuWvVcO2QZ449lu7O2e.html #katherinephilipps
Epitaph
Katherine Philips
00:00:03
What on Earth deserves our trust ?
Youth and Beauty both are dust.
Long we gathering are with pain,
What one moment calls again.
00:00:12
Seven years childless, marriage past,
A Son, a son is born at last :
So exactly lim'd and fair.
00:00:19
Full of good Spirits, Meen, and Air,
As a long life promised,
Yet, in less than six weeks dead.
00:00:25
Too promising, too great a mind
In so small room to be confin'd :
Therefore, as fit in Heav'n to dwell,
He quickly broke the Prison shell.
00:00:34
So the subtle Alchimist,
Can't with Hermes Seal resist
The powerful spirit's subtler flight,
But t'will bid him long good night.
00:00:42
And so the Sun if it arise
Half so glorious as his Eyes,
Like this Infant, takes a shrowd,
Buried in a morning Cloud.
Other Works by Katherine Philipps:
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#katherinephilipps