Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd,
Love's victim then, though now a sainted maid:
But all is calm in this eternal sleep;
Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep,
Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear:
For God, not man, absolves our frailties here.
(Eloisa To Abelard)
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Above, how high, progressive life may go!
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Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.
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Ah ne'er so dire a Thirst of Glory boast,
Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost!
Alexander Pope
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