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Others may use the ocean as their road Only the English make it their abode.
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
Edmund Waller
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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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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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Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.
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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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With wisdom fraught not such as books, but such as practice taught.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
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Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
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Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
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Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
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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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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
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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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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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