Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic

May, must be right, as relative to all. In human works, tho' labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain, In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too some other use. 80 Man, who here seems principal alone,' Perhaps acts second to some sph'ere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal, 'tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Essay on Man.

By Alexander Pope, Esq.

Epistle I.

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan;
A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous
shoot;
Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit,
Together let us beat this ample field.
Try what the open, what the covert yield;

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