None but the cypress
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Earth must be left, and home, and your pleasing wife. And of these trees which you tend, none but the hated cypress shall follow its short-lived master.
1771 text
Linquenda tellus, & domus & placens Uxor: nec harum quas seris arborum Te præter invisam cupressum, Ulla brevem dominum sequetur!
About this text
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.
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