In having all things, and not Thee, what have I? Not having… - Francis Quarles

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In having all things, and not Thee, what have I?
Not having Thee, what have my labors got?
Let me enjoy but Thee, what farther crave I?
And having Thee alone, what have I not?

Francis Quarles

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About Francis Quarles

Francis Quarles (baptised May 8, 1592, died September 8, 1644) was a prolific English prose-writer and poet. He is now best known for his Emblems (1638) and other moral and devotional verse.

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We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil;
We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day
Whose conquering ray
May chase these fogs; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Light will repay
The wrongs of night;
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