Edward Young - The revenge (1764)

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Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.

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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.

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This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

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O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

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