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Oh, Could I Flow Like Thee, And Make Thy Stream My Great Example, As It Is My Theme!
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Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
My great example, as it is my theme!
Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.
-- Sir John Denham (1615-1668)
-- Cooper's Hill, Line 189
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Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold
His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore....
Her face is like the milky way i' the sky,-- A meeting of gentle lights without a name.
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Or I will rend thee In the gobberwarts With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!...
Ever of thee I 'm fondly dreaming, Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
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I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
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