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I live to shew his power, who once did bring My joyes to weep, and now my griefs to sing
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Woe be to him that reads but one book.
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I will complain, yet praise;I will bewail, approve:And all my sowre-sweet dayesI will lament, and love.
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Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,
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The best mirror is an old friend.
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Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky;The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,For thou must die.
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Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair?
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Sorrow hath chang'd its note : such is His willWho changeth all things
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O who will give me tears? Come, all ye springs,Dwell in my head and eyes; come, cloudsand rain;My grief hath need of all the watery thingsThat nature hath produced: let every veinSuck up a river to supply mine eyes,My weary weeping eyes, too dry for me,Unless they get new conduits, new supplies,To bear them out, and with my state agree.
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