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Part Of The Ninth Ode Of The Fourth Book.

By Alexander Pope

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1 Lest you should think that verse shall die,     Which sounds the silver Thames along,     Taught, on the wings of truth to fly     Above the reach of vulgar song;     2 Though daring Milton sits sublime,     In Spenser, native Muses play;     Nor yet shall Waller yield to time,     Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay.     3 Sages and chiefs long since had birth     Ere Caesar was, or Newton named;     These raised new empires o'er the earth,     And those, new heavens and systems framed.     4 Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride!     They had no poet, and they died.     In vain they schemed, in vain they bled!     They had no poet, and are dead.

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About Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was an English poet and the master of the heroic couplet. His works include "The Rape of the Lock," "An Essay on Man," and brilliant translations of Homer. He was the dominant poet of the Augustan age and a master of satirical verse.

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