A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
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Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
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Though with judgment we on things reflect, Our will determines, not our intellect.
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So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love.
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