SONNET II. Thomas Edwards Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T131163 K104099.002 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] p. 323. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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SONNET II . WIsely , O C* ; enjoy the present hour , The present hour is all the time we have , High God the rest has plac'd beyond our pow'r , Consign'd , perhaps , to grief — or to the grave . Wretched the man , who toils ambition's slave ; Who pines for wealth , or sighs for empty fame ; Who rolls in pleasures which the mind deprave , Bought with severe remorse , and guilty shame . Virtue and knowledge be our better aim ; These help us Ill to bear , or teach to shun ; Let friendship cheer us with her gen'rous flame , Friendship , the sum of all our joys in one ; So shall we live each moment fate has giv'n ; How long , or short , let us resign to heav'n .