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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Sun
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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