Four favourite songs/Could a Man Be Secure?

COULD A MAN BE SECURE.

Could a man be secure,
That his life would endure
As of old for a thousand long years,
What arts might he know,
What acts might he do,
And all without hurry or care,
But we that have but span-long lives
The thicker must lay on the pleasure,
And since time will not stay,
We'll add the night unto the day,
And thus we'll fill the measures.

 

FINIS.