Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine,
And health and youth possess'd me;
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When, to their airy hall, my father's voice
Shall call my spirit, joyful in their choice;
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The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, The beginning of every end, and the end of every place.
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Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred,
Promoted thence to deck her mistress' head;
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A spirit passed before me: I beheld The face of immortality unveiled--
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Which, in the Arabic language, is to the following purport:
I
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In one dread night our city saw, and sigh'd, Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of pride
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Adieu, adieu! my native shore
Fades o'ver the waters blue;
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[Animula! vagula, blandula, Hospes comesque corporis,
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Since the refinement of this polish'd age Has swept irnmortal raillery from the stage;
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And wilt thou weep when I am low? Sweet lady! speak those words again:
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MONTGOMERY! true, the common lot Of mortals lies in Lethe's wave;
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'But if any old lady, knight, priest or physician Should condemn me for printing a second edition;
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Away, away, ye notes of woe! Be silent, thou once soothing strain,
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'Tis known, at least it should be, that throughout
All countries of the Catholic persuasion,
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To the tune of 'Why, how now, saucy jade?' Why, how now, saucy Tom?
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Bright be the place of thy soul! No lovelier spirit than thine
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To Ianthe:
Not in those climes where I have late been straying,
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs;
A palace and a prison on each hand:
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Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven!-but thou, alas!
Didst never yet one mortal song inspire-
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Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child!
Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart?
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'I cannot but remember such things were, And were most dear to me.'
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I stood beside the grave of him who blazed
The comet of a season, and I saw
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When the vain triumph of the imperial lord, Whom servile Rome obey'd, and yet abhorr'd,
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In law an infant, and in years a boy, In mind a slave to every vicious joy;
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
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Dear Doctor, I have read your play,
Which is a good one in its way,
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Oh blood and thunder! and oh blood and wounds!
These are but vulgar oaths, as you may deem,
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When Bishop Berkeley said 'there was no matter,'
And proved it--'twas no matter what he said:
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Ah!--What should follow slips from my reflection;
Whatever follows ne'ertheless may be
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