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Eloisa to Abelard
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How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence?
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Oh happy state! when souls each other draw,
When love is liberty, and nature, law.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Oh name forever sad! forever dear!
Still breath'd in sighs, still usher'd with a tear.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
'Tis sure the hardest science to forget!
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Alexander Pope
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Born:
May 21, 1688
Died:
May 30, 1744
(aged 56)
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