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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Translation of Cowley’s Epigram on Francis Drake

Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

THE STARS above will make thee known,

If man were silent here;

The sun himself cannot forget

His fellow-traveller.