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The voice which I did more esteem Than music in her sweetest key; Those eyes which unto me did seem More comfortable than the day! Those now by me, as they have been, Shall never more be heard or seen; But what I once enjoyed in them, Shall seem hereafter as a dream. All earthly comforts vanish thus; So little hold of them have we, That we from them, or they from us, May in a moment ravished be. Yet we are neither just nor wise, If present mercies we despise; Or mind not how there may be made A thankful use of what we had.
The voice which I did more esteem Than music in her sweetest key; Those eyes which unto me did seem More comfortable than the day! Those now by me, as they have been, Shall never more be heard or seen; But what I once enjoyed in them, Shall seem hereafter as a dream. All earthly comforts vanish thus; So little hold of them have we, That we from them, or they from us, May in a moment ravished be. Yet we are neither just nor wise, If present mercies we despise; Or mind not how there may be made A thankful use of what we had.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Wither (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 133 · printed citation: Wither · subject: COMFORT
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