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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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