Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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HENRY VAUGHAN.  1621-1695.

But felt through all this fleshly dress

Bright shoots of everlastingness.

The Retreat.

I see them walking in an air of glory

Whose light doth trample on my days,—

[[264]]My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,

Mere glimmering and decays.

They are all gone.