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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover And not to me, they no less silent lover?

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  1. Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far, That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!
  2. To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world
  3. What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?
  4. His time is forever, everywhere his place.
  5. We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry; Arts which I lov'd, for they, my f…
  6. His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right.
  7. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fr…
  8. Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?

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