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<p>AT ev'ry festive board th'admir'd guest,<lb/> At ev'ry Ball the partner in request;<lb/> 'Mid Fashion's throng wherever thou art seen<lb/> Th' acknowledge'd fairest type of Beaty's Queen:<lb/> And yet- wit all this tribute to thy grace,<lb/> This servent homage of thy form and face;<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac126"/> Unmov'd, unchang'd, thou art in all the same<lb/> As heretofore; - nor Love, nor praise, nor blame,<lb/> To thee or pleasure or annoy impart-<lb/> Such is the icy coldness of thine heart!<lb/> That thou art thus, explains full well to me,<lb/> What I once deem'd mere fabulous to be:<lb/> That even 'midst the Ocean's rolling wave,<lb/> Where all earth'd waters find a common grave;<lb/> There flow some Rivers which no less maintain<lb/> Their course unbroken, and unmix'd retain<lb/> Their Water's sweetness 'mid the briny main!-*<lb/> So thou, who kindleft in all hearts, desire,<lb/> Mov'st cold and still unscath'd amidst the fire!</p> <p>QUIS fonacem Regis Babylonii sine adustione ingressus est, inquit, cujus adolescentis<lb/> AEgyptica Domina pallium non terruit? Inter illecebras voluptatum etiam ferreas<lb/> mentes libido domat. Difficilè inter opulas servatur pudicitia. -HIERON. lib. iii. Epist. 5.<lb/> PERICLITATUR castitas in diliciis, humilitas in divitiis, pietas in negotiis, veritas in<lb/> multiloquio, charitas in hoc mundo. -BERNARD. in quod. Serm.</p> <p>THE rolling whell that runneth often round,<lb/> The hardest stell in tract of time doth tear;<lb/> And drizzling drops, that often do redound,<lb/> The firmest flint doth in continuance wear:<lb/> Yet cannot I, with many a dropping tear<lb/> And long entreaty, soften her hard heart,<lb/> That she will once vouchsafe my plaint to hear,<lb/> Or look with pity on my painful smart.<lb/> But, when I plead, she bids me play my part;<lb/> And when I weep, she says; Tears are but water;<lb/> And, when I sigh, she says; I know the art;<lb/> And, when I wail, whe turns herself to laughter.<lb/> So do I weep, and wail, and plead in vain,<lb/> While she as steel and flint doth still remain. -EDMUND SPENSER.</p> <p>*This was antiently and affirmed and believed of the River Alpheus, in its course trough the<lb/> Sicilian Sea.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac127"/> <p>I PR'YTHEE send me back my heart,<lb/> Since I can not have thine;<lb/> For if from yours you will not part-<lb/> Why then shouldst thou have mine?<lb/> Yet now I think ont, let it lie,<lb/> To find it were in vain;<lb/> For thou'st a thief in either eye<lb/> Would steal it back again. -SIR J.SUCKLING.</p> <p>OH! who would love? I woo'd a Woman once,<lb/> But she was sharper than an eastern wind,<lb/> And all my heart turn'd from her, as a thorn<lb/> Turns from the sea. -TENNYSON.<lb/> THE fais Lauretta's eyes, so blue and bright,<lb/> Look blank and cold when I am in her sight.<lb/> Paint her not thus, kind limner! give her that<lb/> Sweet smile she wears when talking to her cat.<lb/> So shall I fondly think, whene'er I see<lb/> The beaming Portrait, that is smiles on me. -Anon</p> <p>Mediis immixtus in undis.<lb/> READER! from this our Emblem learn to be<lb/> Th'unmingling River, flowing through the sea<lb/> Of this World's brackish waters. Thou too, keep<lb/> Thy course unbroken 'mid the briny deep<lb/> Off all its lures, its lusts and vanity.<lb/> Though living in men's midst, yield not thine heart<lb/> To those who would their taint to it impart;<lb/> Lest soon commingling with the 'whelming tide<lb/> Of Passion's waves which press on ev'ry side,<lb/> Thy Soul's sweet waters lose their purity.</p> <p>DISCITE in hoc mundo, suprà mundum esse; et si corpus geritis, volitet in vobis<lb/> ales interior. -AMEROS. de Virg.<lb/> THAT ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in<lb/> the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, amon whom ye whine as lights in<lb/> the world. -Philip. ii. 15.<lb/> AND they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world<lb/> passeth away. -I Corinth. vii. 31.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac128"/> <p>WHEN thou in darkenesse of the night didst blaze,<lb/> I could not without envy on thee gaze;<lb/> But when the Cyclop Titan comes in sight,<lb/> There is no ods twixt darkenesse and thy light:<lb/> I doe not envy thee, although thou shine;<lb/> No glor' I have nor is the glory thine.<lb/> As lightsome bodyes doe a shaddow give;<lb/> So glory without envy cannot live:<lb/> When greater glory doth the meane suppresse,<lb/> It likewise takes the envy from the lesse.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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I Am Touched, Not Broken by the Waves

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A river flows into the sea towards an island where a river-god also pours water into the sea; the sweet water does not mix with the salt water of the sea

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<p>I AM TOUCHED, NOT BROKEN BY THE WAVES</p>

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