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How vast a memory has Love!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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