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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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