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
ABRAHAM COWLEYWater and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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