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My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.
Andrew Marvell
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Andrew Marvell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1621
Born: March 31
Died: 1678
Died: August 16
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
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Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
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How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?
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How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad and these mixed everywhere.
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He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.
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Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
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Now let us sport us while we may And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
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And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.
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My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.
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Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
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I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.
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What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.
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See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.
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Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.
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Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood.
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