On a very old glass at Market-Hill
Frail glass! thou mortal art as well as I;
Though none can tell which of us first shall die.
Answered ExTempore by Dr. Swift
We both are mortal; but thou, frailer creature,
May'st die, like me, by chance, but not by nature.
Jonathan Swift, "The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume II"
2 comments:
Liquid metal, as you would see in a foundry.
The Pyrausta may jump out of it at any moment, then.
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