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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

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The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

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My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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That power Which erring men call Chance.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

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