Versos English Abraham Cowley Of Obscurity

English poem

Of Obscurity

by (1618–1667)

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Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, Nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit.

God made not pleasures only for the rich, Nor have those men without their share too lived, Who both in life and death the world deceived.