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As spiders touched seek their webs' inmost part,
As bees in storms unto their hives return,
As blood in danger gathers to the heart,
As men seek towns when foes the country burn.
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Why did my parents send me to the schools
That I with knowledge might enrich my mind?
Since the desire to know first made men fools,
And did corrupt the root of all mankind.
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For this, the wisest of all moral men
Said he knew nought, but that he nought did know;
And the great mocking master mocked not then,
When he said, Truth was buried deep below.
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Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
John Davies
Born:
April 16, 1569
Died:
December 8, 1626
(aged 57)
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