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Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.
Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to
bee buried there.
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to
bee buried there.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.