Matthew Prior: So vanishes our state; so pass our days; So life but opens now, and now decays; The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh,

So vanishes our state; so pass our days; So life but opens now, and now decays; — Matthew Prior

So vanishes our state; so pass our days; So life but opens now, and now decays; The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh, To live is scarce distinguish'd from to die.

Matthew Prior

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