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First Line: You that seek what life is in death
Last Line: But steps to your eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord
Variant Title(s): Despair


You that seek what life is in death,
Now find it air that once was breath.
New names unknown, old names gone;
Till time end bodies, but souls none.
Reader! then make time, while you be
But steps to your eternity.





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