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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days
Have led their children through the mirthful maze,
And the gay grandsire, skill’d in gestic lore,
Has frisk’d beneath the burden of threescore.

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They please, are pleas’d; they give to get esteem,
Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. 1

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Embosom’d in the deep where Holland lies.
Methinks her patient sons before me stand,
Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by. 2

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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.

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For just experience tells, in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.

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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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Forc’d from their homes, a melancholy train,
To traverse climes beyond the western main;
Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,
And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.

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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centres in the mind.

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Luke’s iron crown, and Damien’s bed of steel. 3

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Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.

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The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made.

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Note 1.
The character of the French. [back]

Note 2.
See Dryden, Quotation 96. [back]

Note 3.
When Davies asked for an explanation of “Luke’s iron crown,” Goldsmith referred him to a book called “Géographie Curieuse,” and added that by “Damien’s bed of-steel” he meant the rack.—Granger: Letters, (1805), p. 52. [back]

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