Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCoy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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