Versos English Stephen Hawes Pryde

English poem

Pryde

by (1474–1523)

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O earth! of earth why art thou so proud? Now what thou art call to remembraunce; Open thine eares unto my song aloude; Is not thy beaute, strength, and puyssaunce, Though becladde with cloth of pleasaunce, Very erth, and also wormes fode, When erth to erth shall turne to the blode?