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Mortality behold and fear

DMI number:
41955
First Line:
Mortality behold and fear
Last Line:
Yet to this shape all must be brought
Poem Genre / Form:
Elegy, Epitaph, and Couplet
Themes:
Death, Hopelessness / vanity of life, Religion[Westminster Abbey.], and The monarchy (heads of state)
Related Poems
First Line:
Mortality behold and fear
Last Line:
Buried in dust once dead by fate
Relationship:
Variant Of
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
Page No(s):
pp.105-106
Poem Title:
Epitaph. 12. A memento for mortality, taken from the view of the Sepulchres of so many Kings and Nobles, as lie interred in the Abbey at Westminster.
Attribution:
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