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Certain and Sudden Appearance to xiv. 2, 3

That poor Earthly Mortals would attend,

With Seriouſneſs of Mind to what is penn'd,

Here is preſented clearly to the Eye,

A little World new made moſt gloriouſly.

To Day here ſtands proud Man, like flowers ſprite,

But look To-morrow, and he is wither'd quite:

How happy might poor fallen Man have liv'd

For ever, had he not his Maker griev'd;

His num'rous Off-ſpring never would eſpy,

Thro' that black curtain of Mortality.

He might diſdain Aſſaults, alſo defie

Grim Death; but now, alas! he's born to die.

Duſt muſt to Duſt, faid God upon his Fall,

Entailing of that Sentence on us all:

Polluted nat'rally with that foul Sin,

Which did in Adam and poor Eve begin.

Alas!