Arras
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| - | [[Dotage]] is a poem by [[George Herbert]] | + | A city, the capital of Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, the historic centre of the Artois region |
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| - | False glozing pleasures, casks of happiness,<br> | + | |
| - | Foolish night-fires, women's and children's wishes,<br> | + | |
| - | Chases in [[arras]], guilded emptiness,<br> | + | |
| - | Shadows well mounted, dreams in a career,<br> | + | |
| - | Embroidered lies, nothing between two dishes;<br> | + | |
| - | These are the pleasures here.<br> | + | |
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| - | True earnest sorrows, rooted miseries,<br> | + | |
| - | Anguish in grain, vexations ripe and blown,<br> | + | |
| - | Sure-footed griefs, solid calamities,<br> | + | |
| - | Plain demonstrations, evident and clear,<br> | + | |
| - | Fetching their proofs ev'n from the very bone;<br> | + | |
| - | These are the sorrows here.<br> | + | |
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| - | But O the folly of distracted men,<br> | + | |
| - | Who griefs in earnest, joys in jest pursue;<br> | + | |
| - | Preferring, like brute beasts, a lothsome den<br> | + | |
| - | Before a court, ev'n that above so clear,<br> | + | |
| - | Where are no sorrows, but delights more truev | + | |
| - | Than miseries are here!<br> | + | |
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| - | ==See also== | + | |
| - | *[[second childhood]] | + | |
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A city, the capital of Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, the historic centre of the Artois region
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