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Epilogue.

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Here check we our career:      Long books I greatly fear.      I would not quite exhaust my stuff;      The flower of subjects is enough.      To me, the time is come, it seems,      To draw my breath for other themes.      Love, tyrant of my life, commands      That other work be on my hands.      I dare not disobey.      Once more shall Psyche be my lay.      I'm call'd by Damon to portray      Her sorrows and her joys.      I yield: perhaps, while she employs,      My muse will catch a richer glow;      And well if this my labour'd strain      Shall be the last and only pain      Her spouse[1] shall cause me here below.

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