Poetical pieces on various subjects/A Simile
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A SIMILE.
The crazy vessel in the flood,
That hath great billows oft withstood,
In past revolved years;
Now worn sore out with leaks and chinks,
Each wave that beats she deeper sinks:
At last she disappears.
So human frames when days begin,
grow stout by nature's cup;
Cut when old age sets winter in,
they soon are swallow'd up.
FINIS.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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