What doth it serve to see sun's burning face, And skies ena… - William Drummond of Hawthornden

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What doth it serve to see sun's burning face, And skies enamelled with both the Indies' gold? Or moon at night in jetty chariot roll'd, And all the glory of that starry place?

William Drummond of Hawthornden

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William Drummond of Hawthornden (13 December 1585 – 4 December 1649) was a Scottish poet.

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This Life, which seems so fair,
Is like a bubble blown up in the air
By sporting children's breath,
Who chase it every where

God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh’s Saint Gyles.

Make an eternal spring;
Give life to this dark world which lieth dead.
Spread forth thy golden hair
In larger locks than thou wast wont before,
And emperor-like decore
With diadem of pearl thy temples fair.

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