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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller
Age: 81 †
Born: 1606
Born: March 3
Died: 1687
Died: October 21
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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
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Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
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While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.
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And keeps the palace of the soul.
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
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Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.
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Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.
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With wisdom fraught not such as books, but such as practice taught.
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Others may use the ocean as their road Only the English make it their abode.
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The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.
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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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To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.
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What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
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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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In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.
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