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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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