“How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!” — Edmund Waller

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.