Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/In High Wycomb Churchyard

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Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878
edited by J. C. Hutchieson
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In High Wycomb Churchyard.

Death is a fisherman—the world we see
A fish-pond is, and we the fishes be;
He sometimes angler-like doth with us play,
And slyly takes us one by one away.

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