He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way, By force to ravish, or by fraud betray; For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.Alexander Pope
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And publick Faction doubles private Hate.
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How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug, And sucked all o'er, like an industrious bug.
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See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again All forms that perish other forms supply By turns we catch the vital breath and die.
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Cibber write all thy Verses upon Glasses, The only way to save 'em from our Arses.
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Yet not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound,
Or think thee Lord alone of man,
When thousand worlds are round.
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