The jealous God, when we profane his fires,
Those restless passions in revenge inspires;
And bids them make mistaken mortals groan,
Who seek in love for aught but love alone.
(Eloisa To Abelard)
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Let standard-authors, thus, like trophies borne, Appear more glorious as more hacked and torn.
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'Twixt that, and reason, what a nice barrier;
For ever sep'rate, yet for ever near!
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Vast chain of being, which from God began,
Natures ethereal, human, angel, man,
Beast, bird, fish, insect!
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