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Rise, O my soul, with thy desires to heaven, And with divinest contemplation use Thy time, where time’s eternity is given, And let vain thoughts no more thy thoughts abuse; But sown in darkness let them lie; So live the better, let the worst thoughts die!
Rise, O my soul, with thy desires to heaven, And with divinest contemplation use Thy time, where time’s eternity is given, And let vain thoughts no more thy thoughts abuse; But sown in darkness let them lie; So live the better, let the worst thoughts die!
Approximate author period: c. 1585 AD · renaissance
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- Sir Walter Raleigh
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- Approximate author period: c. 1585 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 600 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: THOUGHT
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