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A COMPARISON OF THE LIFE OF MAN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Man's life is well compared to a feast
Last Line: Comes death, and takes the table clean away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Variant Title(s): Man's Life
Subject(s): Mortality


Man's life is well compared to a feast,
Furnished with choice of all variety,
To it comes Time; and as a bidden guest
He sets him down, in pomp and majesty;
The three-fold Age of man the waiters be.
Then with an earthen voider (made of clay)
Comes Death, and takes the table clean away.




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