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Excerpt from Epistles in Verse
Yes! Thou hast chosen well the better part, And, for the triumphs of the noblest art, Hast wisely scorn'd the sordid cares of life; It's gaudy joys, and it's ambitious strife.
Less fitted for the many, than the few That love the Beautiful, and seek the True, Too proud to pay his honor for his fame, To wish a statesman's, or a conqueror's name, The Poet shuns the Senate, and the Field; Known in his verse, but in his life conceal'd.
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