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Edward Young on Alone

1683–1765 England

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Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought,
Lost to the noble sallies of the soul!
Who think it solitude to be alone.

This sacred shade and solitude, what is it?
'Tis the felt presence of the Deity,
Few are the faults we flatter when alone.

O sacred solitude! divine retreat!
Choice of the prudent! envy of the great,
By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade,
We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Young (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.