THE WORLD by Lord Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1561-1628)

THE WORLD

by Lord Francis Bacon of Verulam

The World’s a bubble, and the Life of Man
Less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb,
So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years
With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns on water, or but writes in dust.

Yet whilst with sorrow here we live opprest,
What life is best? Courts are but only superficial schools
To dandle fools: The rural parts are turned into a den
Of savage men: And where’s a city from foul vice so free,
But may be termed the worst of all the three?

Domestic cares afflict the husband’s bed,
Or pains his head: Those that live single, take it for a curse,
Or do things worse: Some would have children: those that have them, moan
Or wish them gone: What is it, then, to have or have no wife,
But single thraldom, or a double strife?

Our own affection still at home to please
Is a disease: To cross the seas to any foreign soil,
Peril and toil: Wars with their noise affright us; when they cease,
We are worse in peace;? What then remains, but that we still should cry
For being born, or, being born, to die?

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