Our life is nothing but a winter's day: Some only break their [fast, and so away]1: Others stay dinner and depart full-fed: The deepest age but sups and goes to bed: He's most in debt that lingers out the day: Who dies betimes has [less and]2 less to pay.
Two Epitaphs
Song Cycle by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994)
1. Our life is nothing but a winter's day  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644), no title, appears in Divine Fancies: digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations, first published 1633
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Handy-book of Literary Curiosities, by William Shepard Walsh, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893, p. 550.
1 Maconchy: "fast and then away"2 Maconchy: "less, has"
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2. As the tree falls  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
As the tree falls, So must it lie. As the man lives, So will he die. As the man dies, So must he lie All through the days Of eternity.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Total word count: 79