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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevailSounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
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the City
Though
Humble
Sound
Notes
Lyre
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Master
Lowly
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Harmony
Prevail
Different
Inspire
Exalted
Make
Silent
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Masters
Gentle
Thoughts
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain'd to die? Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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