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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

With "A Cypresse Grove": Edited by L. E. Kastner
Drummond, William (1585-1649)

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Volume the First
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Poems in Commendation of the Author.
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POEMS: By W. D.
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Volume the Second

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xviii. Silenus to King Midas.

The greatest Gift that from their loftie Thrones
The all-gouerning powers to men can giue
Is that hee neuer breath, or breathing once
A suckling end his dayes, and leaue to liue:
For then hee neither knowes the woe nor joy
Of life, nor feares the stigian lakes annoy.
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