work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 3711,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""cabinet"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-09-07 00:00:00 UTC,"The Mariner that's drove by Boreas breath,
Doth sail within four inches of his death.
So of the Soul the saying may be true,
That e're it bids its Cabinet adieu,
Four inches is the most that it doth keep
Betwixt its life and an eternal sleep
.
If the Ship splits, or by a fire doth shrink,
The Ship is swallow'd, and the Sailers sink.
So if our earthly Vessels break, the Soul
Doth to another Habitation roul,
For ever plung'd into a boundless Sea,
The bankless Ocean of Eternity.
The Soul should therefore careful be, and strive
To swim, before it come to sink or dive.",,9603,"","""So of the Soul the saying may be true, / That e're it bids its Cabinet adieu, / Four inches is the most that it doth keep / Betwixt its life and an eternal sleep""",Rooms,2009-09-14 19:34:21 UTC,I've included the entire poem