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Time ruinates proud buildings with her hours

DMI number:
41914
First Line:
Time ruinates proud buildings with her hours
Last Line:
Stones to drop down and speak their raisers' praise
Poem Genre / Form:
Proverbs / gnomic verse and Ten-line stanza aabcbcddee
Themes:
Books, Corruption, Glories of past ages, and Time
Content/Publication
Title:
A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
Page No(s):
pp.57-58
Poem Title:
[no title: embedded quotation]
Attribution:
as one saith of Time
Attributed To:
Not attributed