Adams Cowley

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    “The more I live here in western Europe, the more I am impressed by the sense of decay;Mnot the graceful and dignified decay of an oriental, but the vulgar and sordid decay of a bankrupt cotton-mill.”
    —Henry Brooks. Adams (1838–1918)

    “Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou
    Wert Living the same Poet which thou’rt Now,
    Whilst Angels sing to thee their ayres divine,
    And joy in an applause so great as thine.
    Equal society with them to hold,
    Thou need’st not make new Songs, but say the Old.”
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)