Epitaph
Katherine Philips
1632 to 1664
Track 1
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Therefore, as fit in Heaven to dwell,
Full of good Spirits, Meen, and Air,
Seven years childless marriage past,
But t’will bid him long good night.
So the subtle Alchemist,
Can’t with Hermes Seal resist
What one moment calls again.
As a long life promised,
In so small room to be confined:
Buried in a morning Cloud.
Youth and Beauty both are dust.
Long we gathering are with pain,
And so the Sun if it arise
Too promising, too great a mind
A Son, a son is born at last:
What on Earth deserves our trust?
He quickly broke the Prison shell.
Yet, in less than six weeks dead.
The powerful spirit’s subtler flight,
Like this Infant, takes a shrowd,
So exactly lim’d and fair,
Half so glorious as his Eyes,
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