A Collection of Miscellanies Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses & Letters, Occasionally Written. By John Norris ... The Second Edition Corrected |
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Satiety.
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Satiety.
I
Haste on dull Time, thy winged Minutes haste,I care not now how soon thou bring'st my last.
By what I've liv'd I plainly know
The total Sum of all below.
The days to come, altho they promise more,
I know will be as false as those that went before.
II
The best of life tho once enioy'd, is vain,And why ye Powers the self-same o're again?
The Comedy's so dull, I fear
'Twill not a second acting bear.
No, I've enough; I cannot like the Sun
Each day the self-same stage, and still unwearied, run.
III
What cruel Laws are these that me confineThus still to dig in a deceitful Mine?
Be just ye Powers, my soul set free,
Give her her native Liberty.
'Tis 'gainst the Stage's Law to force my stay,
I've seen an Act or two, and do not like the Play.
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