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<Text id=DryAnMi> <Author>Dryden, John</Author> <Title>Annus Mirabillis</Title> <Edition>W. D. Christie, ed. 5th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901</Edition> <Date>1665-1666</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>DryAnMi </locdoc> <div0 type=stanza> <l>In thriving arts long time had Holland grown,</l> <l>Crouching at home and cruel when abroad:</l> <l>Scarce leaving us the means to claim our own.</l> <l>Our king they courted and our merchants awed.</l> </div0><div0 type=stanza> <l>Trade, which like blood should circularly fow,</l> <l>Stopped in their channels, found its freedom lost:</l> <l>Thither the wealth of all the world did go,</l> <l>And seemed but shipwrecked on so base a coast.</l> </div0><div0 type=stanza> <l>For them alone the heavens had kindly heat,</l> <l>In eastern quarries ripening precious dew:</l> <l>For them the Idumoean balm did sweat,</l> <l>And in hot Ceylon spicy forests grew.</l> </div0><div0 type=stanza> <l>The sun but seeemed the lobourer of their year;</l> <l>Each waxin . . .
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