Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that run… - Abraham Cowley

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Thus would I double my life's fading space;
For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley (1618 – July 28, 1667) was an English metaphysical poet. In his own time he was widely considered the greatest poet of the age.

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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover
And not to me, thy no less silent lover?

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race. - Abraham Cowley

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