LIFE IS THE BODY'S LIGHT

Portrait of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick 1591–1674

Life is the body's light; which, once declining, Those crimson clouds i' th' cheeks and lips leave shining:- Those counter-changed tabbies in the air, The sun once set, all of one colour are: So, when death comes, fresh tinctures lose their place, And dismal darkness then doth smutch the face.

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