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The weary mariner so fast not flies An howling tempest, harbour to attain; Nor shepherd hastes, when frays of wolves arise, So fast to fold, to save his bleating train! As I, wing’d with contempt and just disdain, Now fly the world and what it most doth prize, And sanctuary seek, free to remain From wounds of abject times, and envy’s eyes: To me this world did once seem sweet and fair, While sense’s light mind’s perspective kept blind; Now like imagin’d landscapes in the air, And weeping rainbows, her best joys I find; Or if aught here is had that praise should have, It is an obscure life and silent grave.
The weary mariner so fast not flies An howling tempest, harbour to attain; Nor shepherd hastes, when frays of wolves arise, So fast to fold, to save his bleating train! As I, wing’d with contempt and just disdain, Now fly the world and what it most doth prize, And sanctuary seek, free to remain From wounds of abject times, and envy’s eyes: To me this world did once seem sweet and fair, While sense’s light mind’s perspective kept blind; Now like imagin’d landscapes in the air, And weeping rainbows, her best joys I find; Or if aught here is had that praise should have, It is an obscure life and silent grave.
Approximate author period: c. 1617 AD · renaissance
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- William Drummond
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- Approximate author period: c. 1617 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 687 · printed citation: William Drummond · subject: WORLD
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