And unamaz'd attempt the laurel crown,
20That lies on th' other side Death's Rubicon.
A Thought of Death.] Flatman's best-known, if not his only known thing to most people—the knowledge being due to Warton's suggestion of indebtedness to it on Pope's part in his Dying Christian.
Psalm xxxix. Vers. 4, 5.
Verse IV.
Lord, let me know the period of my age,
The length of this my weary pilgrimage,
How long this miserable life shall last,
This life that stays so long, yet flies so fast!