Thus safely low my friend thou canst not fall
- DMI number:
- 25142
- First Line:
- Thus safely low my friend thou canst not fall
- Last Line:
- High bliss is only for a higher state
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Ten-line stanza aabbccddee, Epigram, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Philosophical enquiry, and Retirement
- Author:
- James Thomson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sambrook (1986): 302.
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- CCCCXXIV. To the Reverend Mr. Murdoch, Rector of Straddishall, in Suffolk.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
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