Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
ABRAHAM COWLEYVain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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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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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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