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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

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Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

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He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

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So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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Calm of mind, all passion spent.

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Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

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Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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