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Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller
Age: 81 †
Born: 1606
Born: March 3
Died: 1687
Died: October 21
Poet
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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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Others may use the ocean as their road Only the English make it their abode.
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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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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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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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Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
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Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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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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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'dHe that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.
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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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Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
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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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