The Year of Wonders.
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255.
Those who have Homes, when Home they do repair,
To a last Lodging call their wand'ring Friends;
Their short uneasie Sleeps are broke with Care,
To look how near their own Destruction tends.
Those who have Homes, when Home they do repair,
To a last Lodging call their wand'ring Friends;
Their short uneasie Sleeps are broke with Care,
To look how near their own Destruction tends.
256.
Those who have none sit round where once it was,
And with full Eyes each wonted Room require:
Haunting the yet warm Ashes of the place,
As murder'd Men walk where they did expire.
Those who have none sit round where once it was,
And with full Eyes each wonted Room require:
Haunting the yet warm Ashes of the place,
As murder'd Men walk where they did expire.
257.
Some stir up Coals, and watch the Vestal fire,
Others in vain from sight of Ruin run:
And, while through burning Lab'rinths they retire,
With loathing Eyes repeat what they would shun.
Some stir up Coals, and watch the Vestal fire,
Others in vain from sight of Ruin run:
And, while through burning Lab'rinths they retire,
With loathing Eyes repeat what they would shun.
258.
The most, in Feilds, like herded Beasts lie down;
To Dews obnoxious on the grassie Floor:
And while their Babes in Sleep their Sorrows drown,
Sad Parents watch the remnants of their Store.
The most, in Feilds, like herded Beasts lie down;
To Dews obnoxious on the grassie Floor:
And while their Babes in Sleep their Sorrows drown,
Sad Parents watch the remnants of their Store.
259. While
