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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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