But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college, or a cat; To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, T'enrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.Alexander Pope
Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,
Led through a sad variety of woe:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in thy bloom,
Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.
Alexander Pope
ut not without a plan;
A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot;
Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Alexander Pope
Fine by defect and delicately weak.
Alexander Pope
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Alexander Pope
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