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Orange bright,
Like golden lamps in a green light.
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Society is all but rude,
To this delicious solitude.
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Where the remote Bermudas ride,
In th' ocean's bosom unespied.
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How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays.
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Had it lived long, it would have been
Lilies without, roses within.
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But Fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt.
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Casting the body's vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide.
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How fit is he to sway
That can so well obey ("Horatian Ode," 83-84),
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So architects do square and hew,
Green trees that in the forest grew.
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And makes the hollow seas, that roar,
Proclaim the ambergris on shore.
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This indigested vomit of the Sea,
Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.
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No creature loves an empty space;
Their bodies measure out their place.
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An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
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He hangs in shades the orange bright,
Like golden lamps in a green night.
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And all the way, to guide their chime,
With falling oars they kept the time.
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How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?
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To make a bank was a great plot of state;
Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
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She with her eyes my heart does bind,
She with her voice might captivate my mind.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear —
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
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Oh thou, that dear and happy isle
The garden of the world ere while,
Thou paradise of four seas.
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He is translation's thief that addeth more,
As much as he that taketh from the store
Of the first author.
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Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.
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How should I avoid to be her slave,
Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath
My fetters of the very air I breath?
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I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.
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My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
March 31, 1621
Died:
August 16, 1678
(aged 57)
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