Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death.
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Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.Thomas Gray
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
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Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
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And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
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Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,but far above the great.
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