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Life is most enjoyed When courted least; most worth when disesteemed; Then ’tis the seat of comfort, rich in peace, In prospect richer far; important, awful, Not to be mentioned, but with shouts of praise! Not to be thought on, but with tides of joy! The mighty basis of eternal bliss! ***** In the same brook, none ever bathed him twice: To the same life, none ever twice awoke. We call the brook the same; the same we think Our life, though still more rapid in its flow; Nor mark the much irrevocably lapsed, And mingled with the sea.
Life is most enjoyed When courted least; most worth when disesteemed; Then ’tis the seat of comfort, rich in peace, In prospect richer far; important, awful, Not to be mentioned, but with shouts of praise! Not to be thought on, but with tides of joy! The mighty basis of eternal bliss! ***** In the same brook, none ever bathed him twice: To the same life, none ever twice awoke. We call the brook the same; the same we think Our life, though still more rapid in its flow; Nor mark the much irrevocably lapsed, And mingled with the sea.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 356 · printed citation: Young · subject: LIFE
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