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A green thought in a green shade. - [Nature] Music, the mosaic of the air. - [Music] See how the orient dew Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses (Yet careless of its mansion new For the clear region where 'twas born) Round in itself incloses, And in its little globe's extent Frames, as it can, its native element. - [Dew] The inglorious arts of peace. - [Art] Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative. - [Ill-nature] Time, the prime minister of death! there's nought can bribe his honest will. - [Time] And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. - Bermudas [Boating] Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. - Description of Holland [Eyes] He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene. - Horatian Ode--Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland [Action] So much one man can do, That does both act and know. - Horatian Ode--Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland [Action] Who can foretell for what high cause This daring of the gods was born? - Picture of T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers [Childhood] To make a bank, was a great plot state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate. - The Character of Holland [Government] Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. - The Garden, (translated) [Thought] The world in all doth but two nations bear, The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere. - The Loyal Scot [World] Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral Shining unto no other end Than to presage the grass's fall. - The Mower to the Glow-worm [Glowworms] Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late; And studying all the summer night, Her matchless songs does meditate. - The Mower to the Glow-worm [Glowworms] But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - To his coy Mistress [Time] Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime . . . But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near . . . - To His Coy Mistress [Love] In the inglorious arts of peace. - Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland [Peace]
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