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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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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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Faithful found among the faithless.

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Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

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It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.

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And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

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I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

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To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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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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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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