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AN EPIGRAM ON WOMAN by PHILIP AYRES

First Line: SINCE MAN'S A LITTLE WORLD, TO MAKE IT GREAT
Last Line: A HEAV'NLY COUNT'NANCE, AND A HEART INFERNAL.
Subject(s): WOMEN;
SINCE Man's a Little World, to make it great
Add Woman, and the metaphor's complete;
Nature this piece with utmost skill design'd,
And made her of a substance more refin'd,
But wretched Man, compos'd of dust and clay,
Must like all earthly things, with Time decay;

While she may justly boast of what's eternal,
A Heav'nly Count'nance, and a Heart Infernal.



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