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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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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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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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