A thousand years a poor man watched Before the gate of Para… - William Rounseville Alger

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A thousand years a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched, It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?

William Rounseville Alger

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About William Rounseville Alger

William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860).

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Alternative Names: William R. Alger • W. R. Alger • William Alger

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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease:
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As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,
And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

A thousand years a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise: But while one little nap he snatched, It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise? - William Rounseville Alger

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