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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN CHRIST CHURCH, BRISTOL, ON THOMAS TURNER, by FRANCIS JEFFREY
First Line: Like to a baker's oven is the grave
Last Line: Though set like dough, they shall be drawn like bread.
Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Epitaphs
First Line: Like to a baker's oven is the grave
Last Line: Though set like dough, they shall be drawn like bread.
Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Epitaphs
Like to a Baker's oven is the grave,
Wherein the bodies of the faithful have
A setting in, and where they do remain
In hopes to rise, and to be drawn again:
Blessed are they who in the Lord are dead;
Though set like dough, they shall be drawn like bread.
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