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THE
HOUR-GLASS.
by Ben Jonson
Consider this small dust, here in the glass,
By atoms moved :
Could you believe that this the body was
Of one that loved ;
And in his mistress' flame playing like a fly,
Was turned to cinders by her eye :
Yes ; and in death, as life unblest,
To have't exprest,
Even ashes of lovers find no rest.
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Source:
Jonson, Ben. The Works of Ben Jonson, vol. 3.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. 262-4.
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