Fair pledges are of that eternity
Which Christians possess not till they die;
Yet they appear, view'd in that perspective
20Through which we look on men long since alive,
Like succours in a Camp, sent to make good
Their place that last upon the watches stood.
So that in age, or fate, each following birth
Doth set the parent so much nearer earth:
And by this grammar we our heirs may call
The smiling Preface to our funeral.