Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great ex… - John Denham

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Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.

John Denham

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Sir John Denham (1614 or 1615 – 10 March 1669) was a Anglo-Irish poet and courtier. Son of the Chief Baron of Exchequer in Ireland, he was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn in London.

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Alternative Names: Worthy and learned Gent., • Sir John Denham

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Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.

But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor.

That servile path thou nobly dost decline
Of tracing word by word, and line by line;
A new and nobler way thou dost pursue
To make translations, and translators too;
They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame,
True to his sense, but truer to his fame.

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