LARGE BOUNDS DO BUT BURY US.
by Robert Herrick


ALL things o'er-ruled are here by chance :
The greatest man's inheritance,
Where'er the lucky lot doth fall,
Serves but for place of burial.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 247.


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