A soul prepared needs no delays
- DMI number:
- 34510
- First Line:
- A soul prepared needs no delays
- Last Line:
- When it shall rise immortal too
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death
- Author:
- Isaac Watts
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- At least partly drawn from An inscription on a monumental stone in Chessunt Church ('A soul prepar'd needs no delays'): compare Watts, 'Reliquiae Juveniles' (1734): 301.
- Title:
- A new select collection of epitaphs [vol I] [T136904] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.227-228
- Poem Title:
- On Hannah Masfen, who died Nov. 10, 1727, Aet. 39; and John Masfen, who died Aug. 17, 1746, Aetat. 58.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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