Elizabeth Bath Quotes

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Why, alas! is life decreed
Full of pain and full of sorrow?
All uncertain as it is,
Can we rest upon tomorrow?
Why should blessings yet in store,
Hold us still in expectation?
Leading thro' succeeding sorrows,
By some fond anticipation:
'Tis to give a tender interest
To the scenes in which we're moving:
While those hopes so often blasted,
Sensual pleasures are reproving.

Elizabeth Bath

Forever seeking, never found,
In this wide varied scene;
Sole object of unceasing search,
While in this low terrene.
Yet vain the search, if in the heart
Some lurking passion dwell;
For this will hang with cypress wreath
Retirement's secret cell.
In vain the outward scene is calm,
In vain the world we fly;
If thou, in pure religion's garb,
Thy friendly aid deny.

Elizabeth Bath

Elizabeth Bath

Elizabeth Bath

Born: February 17, 1776

Died: October 3, 1844 (aged 68)

Bio: Elizabeth Bath, née Paddy, is the author of a collection of sixty-six poems published by subscription in 1806 in Bristol. She was a member of the Society of Friends.

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