An Essay On Death And A Prison Poem Rhyme Scheme

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A prison is in all things like a grave	A
Where we no better priviledges have	B
Then dead men nor so good The soul once fled	C
Lives freer now then when she was cloystered	C
In walls of flesh and though she organs want	C
To act her swift designs yet all will grant	C
Her faculties more clear now separate	C
Then if the same conjunction which of late	C
Did marry her to earth had stood in force	D
Uncapable of death or of divorce	D
But an imprison'd mind though living dies	E
And at one time feels two captivities	E
A narrow dungeon which her body holds	E
But narrower body which her self enfolds	E
Whil'st I in prison ly nothing is free	F
Nothing enlarg'd but thought and miserie	F
Though e'ry chink be stopt the doors close barr'd	C
Despight of walls and locks through e'ry ward	C
These have their issues forth may take the aire	F
Though not for health but onely to compare	F
How wretched those men are who freedom want	C
By such as never suffer'd a restraint	C
In which unquiet travel could I find	C
Ought that might settle my distemper'd mind	C
Or of some comfort make discovery	F
It were a voyage well imploy'd but I	G
Like our raw travellers that cross the seas	E
To fetch home fashions or some worse disease	E
Instead of quiet a new torture bring	H
Home t'afflict me malice and murmuring	H
What is't I envy not no dog nor fly	G
But my desires prefer and wish were I	G
For they are free or if they were like me	F
They had no sense to know calamitie	C
But in the grave no sparks of envy live	I
No hot comparisons that causes give	J
Of quarrel or that our affections move	K
Any condition save their own to love	L
There are no objects there but shades and night	C
And yet that darkness better then the light	C
There lives a silent harmony no jar	F
Or discord can that sweet soft consort mar	F
The graves deaf ear is clos'd against all noise	E
Save that which rocks must hear the angels voice	E
Whose trump shall wake the world and raise up men	M
Who in earths bosom slept bed rid till then	M
What man then would who on deaths pillow slumbers	E
Be re inspir'd with life though golden numbers	E
Of bliss were pour'd into his breast though he	F
Were sure in change to gain a Monarchie	N
A Monarchs glorious state compar'd with his	E
Less safe less free less firm less quiet is	E
For nere was any Prince advanc't so high	G
That he was out of reach of misery	F
Never did story yet a law report	C
To banish fate or sorrow from his Court	C
Where ere he moves by land or through the Main	O
These go along sworn members of his train	O
But he whom the kind earth hath entertain'd	C
Hath in her womb a sanctuary gain'd	C
Whose charter and protection arm him so	E
That he is priviledg'd from future woe	E
The Coffin's a safe harbour where he rides	E
Land bound below cross windes or churlish tides	E
For grief sprung up with life was mans half brother	F
Fed by the taste brought forth by sin the mother	F
And since the first seduction of the wife	P
God did decree to grief a lease for life	P
Which Patent in full force continue must	C
Till man that disobey'd revert to dust	C
So that lifes sorrows ratifi'd by God	C
Cannot expire or find their period	C
Until the soul and body disunite	C
And by two diff'rent wayes from each take flight	C
But they dissolved once our woes disband	C
Th' assurance cancell'd by one fatall hand	C
Soon as the passing bell proclaims me dead	C
My sorrows sink with me lye buried	C
In the same heap of dust the self same Urn	Q
Doth them and me alike to nothing turn	Q
If then of these I might election make	R
Whether I would refuse and whether take	R
Rather then like a sullen Anchorite	C
I would live cas'd in stone and learn to write	C
A Prisoners story which might steal some tears	E
From the sad eyes of him that reads or hears	E
Give me a peaceful death and let me meet	C
My freedom seal'd up in my winding sheet	C
Death is the pledge of rest and with one bayl	G
Two Prisons quits the Body and the Jayl	G

Henry King

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