Tixall Poetry/A Thought on Human Life

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Tixall Poetry
edited by Arthur Clifford
A Thought on Human Life by unknown author
4306905Tixall PoetryA Thought on Human LifeArthur Cliffordunknown author

XXXVII.

A Thought on Human Life.


Some striving knowledge to refine,
Consume themselves with thinking;
And some, whose friendship's drownd in wine,
Are kindly kild with drinking:
And some are wracked on Indian coasts,
Thither with gaine invited,
And some in smoke of battle lost,
Whom drums, not lutes, delighted.