The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

Gray: Elegy, stanza 14.


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JOHN FLETCHER.  1576-1625.

Man is his own star; and the soul that can

Render an honest and a perfect man

Commands all light, all influence, all fate.

Nothing to him falls early, or too late.

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,[183:1]