To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

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Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

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