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Why dost thou heap up wealth which thou must quit

DMI number:
28166
First Line:
Why dost thou heap up wealth which thou must quit
Last Line:
How vain were such an industry
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work, Quatrain aabb, and Ode
Themes:
Money / wealth
Related People
Author:
Abraham Cowley
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Waller (1906): 450.
Content/Publication
Title:
The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.1]
Page No(s):
pp.203-204
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Cowley. [p.204]
Attributed To:
Abraham Cowley