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BATRACHOMUOMACHIA:
Delight no more; no more her Mind inspire
With pleasing Hopes, gay Thoughts, and young Desire:
All only serve to aggravate her Woe;
And deeper in her Heart descends the Blow.
Be thou then kind and good, nor ever cease
Thy pious Labour till thou bring them Ease;
And let thy Mother and thy Sister see
A Husband and a Father still in thee:
So shall the Muse rejoice to sing thy Praise,
And make thy Deed the Subject of her Lays.
With pleasing Hopes, gay Thoughts, and young Desire:
All only serve to aggravate her Woe;
And deeper in her Heart descends the Blow.
Be thou then kind and good, nor ever cease
Thy pious Labour till thou bring them Ease;
And let thy Mother and thy Sister see
A Husband and a Father still in thee:
So shall the Muse rejoice to sing thy Praise,
And make thy Deed the Subject of her Lays.
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Man that is born of a Woman, &c.
I.
How short, how narrow is the Span!
How few the Years allow'd to Man!
And ev'n in those few Years he feels,
And groans beneath a thousand Ills.
How short, how narrow is the Span!
How few the Years allow'd to Man!
And ev'n in those few Years he feels,
And groans beneath a thousand Ills.
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