"Behold! the soul shall waft away, / Whene'er we come to die, / And leave its cottage made of clay, / In twinkling of an eye."
— Hammon, Jupiter (1711-c.1800)
Place of Publication
Hartford
Date
August 4, 1778
Metaphor
"Behold! the soul shall waft away, / Whene'er we come to die, / And leave its cottage made of clay, / In twinkling of an eye."
Metaphor in Context
Behold! the soul shall waft away,
Whene'er we come to die,
And leave its cottage made of clay,
In twinkling of an eye.
(p. 30)
Whene'er we come to die,
And leave its cottage made of clay,
In twinkling of an eye.
(p. 30)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Carretta, Vincent. Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Expanded ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004): 29-31.
Date of Entry
03/14/2011
