Peter.H.M.Brooks@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Essay on Man
EPISTLE 1
OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO THE UNIVERSE
AWAKE, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us, and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan;
A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot;
Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
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For wit's false mirror held up nature's light;
Shew'd erring pride, whatever is, is right;
That reason, passion, answer one great aim;
That true self-love and social are the same;
That virtue only makes our bliss below;
And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know.
-Alexander Pope
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Okay Peter, so why not come to where the /real poets/ are?
alt.arts.poetry.comments:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.arts.poetry.comments?lnk=li&hl=en
And while you're at it, post some original poetry and/or critique?
On behalf of my fellow poets, we'd be honored to have you join us.
--
"Ozone Stigmata" by Will Dockery
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