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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.

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To err is human, to forgive divine.[325-1]

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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.

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And make each day a critic on the last.

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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Most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.

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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.[325-2]

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Led by the light of the Mæonian star.

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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.[325-3]

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