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Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.
Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have read more
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
