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Oh, rather give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches vex the brain;
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,
And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.
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The ring, so worn as you behold,
So thin, so pale, is yet of gold.
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I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms,
For him that gazes or for him that farms.
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Virtues neglected then, adored become,
And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.
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And need and misery, vice and danger bind
In sad alliance each degraded mind.
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A potent quack, long versed in human ills,
Who first insults the victim whom he kills;
Whose murd'rous hand a drowsy bench protect,
And whose most tender mercy is neglect.
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There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide,
There hang his head, and view the lazy tide
In its hot slimy channel slowly glide;
Where the small eels that left the deeper way
For the warm shore, within the shallows play.
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Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.
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Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too late
Upon one of these depends his whole estate.
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At certain stations he would view the stream, As if he stood bewildered in a dream, Or that some power had chained him for a time, To feel a curse or meditate on crime.
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Lo! all in silence, all in order stand,
And mighty folios first, a lordly band;
Then quartos their well-ordered ranks maintain,
And light octavos fill a spacious plain.
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Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
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Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.
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Wild were his dreams, and oft he rose in fright, Waked by his view of horrors in the night,— Horrors that would the sternest minds amaze, Horrors that demons might be proud to raise: And though he felt forsaken, grieved at heart, To think he lived from all mankind apart, Yet, if a man approached, in terrors he would start.
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Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools,
Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.
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The Town small-talk flows from lip to lip;
Intrigues half-gathered, conversation-scraps,
Kitchen-cabals, and nursery-mishaps.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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George Crabbe
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Born:
December 24, 1754
Died:
February 3, 1832
(aged 77)
Bio:
George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people.
Known for:
The Borough
The Parish Register
George Crabbe: An Anthology
The Complete Poetical Works:
The Village and The Newspaper
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view
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heart
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