From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.Thomas Gray
Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain.
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The gen'rous spark extinct revive,
Teach me to love and to forgive,
Exact my own defects to scan,
What others are, to feel, and know myself a Man.
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The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.
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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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Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
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