Pause here, and think; a monitory rhyme <br />Demands one moment of thy fleeting time. <br />Consult life's silent clock, thy bounding vein; <br />Seems it to say --'Health here has long to reign?' <br />Hast thou the vigour of thy youth? an eye <br />That beams delight? a heart untaught to sigh? <br />Yet fear! Youth ofttimes healthful and at ease, <br />Anticipates a day it never sees; <br />And many a tomb, like Hamilton's, aloud <br />Exclaims, 'Prepare thee for an early shroud!'<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/inscription-for-the-tomb-of-mr-hamilton/
