Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Dear damned distracting town.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
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ut not without a plan;
A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot;
Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
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