Saturday, January 4, 2003

On The Tombs In Westminster Abbey Comments

Rating: 3.3

MORTALITY, behold and fear!
What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within this heap of stones:
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Francis Beaumont
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Ratnakar Mandlik 23 March 2019

" Buried in dust, once dead by fate" , a philosophical inference drawn.

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Douglas Scotney 02 July 2015

'leveller' I'd call it.

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Francie Lynch 02 July 2015

Sure takes a long time to give such a simple message; however, it needs to be spelled out for the sixteenth and seventeenth century dweller. A fine example of period poetry.

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Mortality. All is vanity

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Kim Barney 02 July 2015

It's too bad PH puts out shorter versions of the original poems without letting the public know what they are doing. Although I personally like this shorter version better than the longer one, it's still a shame.

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Edward Kofi Louis 02 July 2015

Morality! ! With the muse of the morals of mankind on earth. Nice work.

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K.c. Ford 02 July 2015

Thanks for the info Winifred.

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