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Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her plowshare o'er creation.
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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;
Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Edward Young
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Born:
1683
Died:
April 5, 1765
(aged 82)
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