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Visions and inspirations some expect Their course here to direct. Like senseless chemists, their own wealth destroy, Imaginary gold to enjoy. So stars appear to drop to us from the sky, And gild the passage as they fly; But when they fall, and meet the opposing ground, What but a sordid slime is found!
Visions and inspirations some expect Their course here to direct. Like senseless chemists, their own wealth destroy, Imaginary gold to enjoy. So stars appear to drop to us from the sky, And gild the passage as they fly; But when they fall, and meet the opposing ground, What but a sordid slime is found!
Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
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- Abraham Cowley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
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