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James Thomson (1700 – 1748)


Scottish poet and playwright.
James Thomson
The best of men have ever loved repose:
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray;
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.
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He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
The deep vibrations of his witching song.
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A little, round, fat, oily man of God.




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Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
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But yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.
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Poor is the triumph o’er the timid hare!
Scared from the corn, and now to some lone seat
Retired—
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For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.
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I care not, Fortune, what you me deny;
You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the sky,
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face;
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace
The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve.
Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,
And I their toys to the great children leave:
Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave.
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Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.
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The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid.
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Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls,
Boils round the naked melancholy isles
Of farthest Thul?, and th' Atlantic surge
Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.




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Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.
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An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
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Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
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There studious let me sit,
And hold high converse with the mighty dead.
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But who can paint
Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
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But what most showed the vanity of life
Was to behold the nations all on fire.
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And Mecca saddens at the long delay.
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Base Envy withers at another’s joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
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O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
And heightens ease with grace.


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