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The Poems of Edmund Waller

Edited by G. Thorn Drury

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Exul eram, requiesque mihi, non Fama petita est,
Mens intenta suis ne foret usque malis.
Namque ubi mota calent Sacrâ mea Pectora Musâ,
Altior humano Spiritus ille malo est.
—De Trist.