A Collection of Miscellanies Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses & Letters, Occasionally Written. By John Norris ... The Second Edition Corrected |
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To a Lady, who asked him, What Life was?
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To a Lady, who asked him, What Life was?
'Tis not because I breathe and eat,'Tis not because a vigorous heat
Drives round my Blood, and does impart
Motion to my Pulse and Heart:
'Tis not such proofs as these can give
Any assurance that I Live:
No, no, to Live is to enjoy;
What marrs our bliss does Life destroy:
The days which pass without Content,
Are not liv'd properly, but spent.
Who says the Damn'd in Hell do Live?
That word we to the Blessed give:
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We by the Name of Life express.
Well then, if this account be true,
To Live is still to Live with You.
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