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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.

— Edmund Waller

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)

For all we know
Of what the blessed do above
Is, that they sing, and that they love.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

The yielding marble of her snowy breast.

Love only enters as a native there,
For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.

Of Divine Love (1686)

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