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But o'er the afflicted with a heavy pace
Sweeps the broad scythe, and tramples on his fa
Down falls the summer's pride, and sadly show
Nature's bare visage furrow'd as he mows:
See, Muse, what havoc in these looks appear,
These are the tyrant's trophies of a year;
Since hope his last and greatest foe is fled,
Despair and he lodge ever in its stead;
March o'er the ruin'd plain with motion slow,
Still scatt'ring desolation where they go.'
To thee I owe that fatal bent of mind,
Still to unhappy restless thoughts inclin'd;
To thee, what oft I vainly strive to hide,
That scorn of fools, by fools mistook for pride;
From thee whatever virtue takes its rise,
Grows a misfortune, or becomes a vice;
Such were thy rules to be poetically great,

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Stoop not to int'rest, flattery, or deceit ;

Nor with hired thoughts be thy devotion paid; Learn to disdain their mercenary aid;

* What a miserable state of mind must Swift have be when he wrote this! which was owing to the state of depen in which he had always lived from his birth to that time, but little prospect of his being relieved from it. How must this have been to such a proud and generous spirit!

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LADY'S IVORY TABLEOK, 1698.

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"Madam I die without your grace"-
“Item, for half a yard of lace."
Who that had wit would place it here,
For every peeping fop to jeer?
To think that your brains' issue is
Expos'd to th' excrement of his,
In power of spittle and a clout,
Whene'er he please to blot it out;
And then, to heighten the disgrace,
Clap his own nonsense in the place.
Whoe'er expects to hold his part
In such a book, and such a heart,
If he be wealthy, and a fool,
Is in all points the fittest tool;
Of whom it may be justly said,
He's a gold pencil tipp'd with lead.

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