The man of life upright,
Whose cheerful mind is free
From weight of impious deeds
and yoke of vanity;
The man whose silent days
In harmless joys are spent,
Whom hopes cannot delude,
Nor sorrows discontent;
That man needs neither towers,
Nor armour for defence,
Nor vaults his guilt to shroud
From thunder's violence;
He only can behold
With unaffrighted eyes
The horrors of the deep,
And terrors of the skies.
Thus, scorning all the cares
That fate or fortune brings,
His book the heavens he makes,
His wisdom heavenly things;
Good thoughts his surest friends,
His wealth a well-spent age,
The earth his sober inn
And quiet pilgrimage.
--Thomas Champion
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Never Love-Thomas Champion 1575?-1620?
Never love unless you can
Bear all the faults of man:
Men sometimes will jealous be
Though but little cause they see;
And hang the head as discontent,
And speak what straight they will repent.
Men, that but one can adore,
Make a show of love to more;
Beauty must be scorn'd in none,
Though but truly serv'd in one:
For what is courtship but disguise?
True hearts may have dissembling eyes.
Men, when their affairs require,
Must awhile themselves retire;
Sometimes hunt, and sometimes hawk,
And not ever sit and talk.
If these and such like you can bear,
Then like, and love, and never fear!
Bear all the faults of man:
Men sometimes will jealous be
Though but little cause they see;
And hang the head as discontent,
And speak what straight they will repent.
Men, that but one can adore,
Make a show of love to more;
Beauty must be scorn'd in none,
Though but truly serv'd in one:
For what is courtship but disguise?
True hearts may have dissembling eyes.
Men, when their affairs require,
Must awhile themselves retire;
Sometimes hunt, and sometimes hawk,
And not ever sit and talk.
If these and such like you can bear,
Then like, and love, and never fear!
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