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"A Comparison of the Life of Man"

Richard Barnfield

Mans life is well compared to a feast,
Furnisht with choice of all Varietie:
To it comes Tyme; and as a bidden guest
Hee sets him downe in Pompe and Maiestie;
The three-folde Age of man, the Waiters bee.
Then with an earthern voyder (made of clay)
Comes Death, & takes the table clean away.