Familiar Quotations Part 70

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Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view.

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Such is the patriot's boast, where er we roam, His first, best country ever is at home.

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By sports like these are all his cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child.

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But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar.

But bind him to his native mountains more.

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Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore.

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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pa.s.s by.

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For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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Forced from their homes, a melancholy train.

THE DESERTED VILLAGE.

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For talking age and whispering lovers made.

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Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth acc.u.mulates, and men decay, Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

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And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

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A youth of labor with an age of ease.

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While resignation gently slopes the way-- And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past!

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And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

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A man he was to all the country dear, And pa.s.sing rich with forty pounds a year.

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Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won.

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