Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYVain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Coy 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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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