The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
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living creatures may extend, above and below us; were
any part of which broken, not that part only, but the whole connected_ creation _must be destroyed_. IX. v. 250. _The_ extravagance, madness, _and_ pride _of such a desire_. X. v. 281, &c. _The consequence of all, the_ absolute submission _to the end_. _due to Providence, both as to our_ present _and_ future state, 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; 5 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; 10 The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; |
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