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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
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City of Westminster
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Genius

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Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
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Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
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Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.
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The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?
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