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To love is to believe, to hope, to know 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

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Edmund Waller
Age: 81 †
Born: 1606
Born: March 3
Died: 1687
Died: October 21
Poet
Politician
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Coleshill
Buckinghamshire
Gentleman that loves the peace
True son of the Church of England and a lover of his countries liberty
Edmund Waller
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
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Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
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His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish for such a King, And no obedience to his sceptre bring, Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light His service freedom, and His judgments right.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
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