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• Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
• Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
• The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
• Thought would destroy their paradise.
• Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on…
• Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small…
• To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet…
• Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read…
• Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
• Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle…
• The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,…
• Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!…

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