The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke ... In Four Volumes Octavo. Revised and corrected by the Original Manuscript With a Portrait of the Author, and His Life By Miss Brooke. The Third Edition |
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AIR VI.
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How often our Mother has told,And sure she is wonderous wise!
In cities, that all you behold,
Is a fair, but a faithless disguise:
That the modes of a court education
Are train-pits, and traitors to youth;
And the only fine language in fashion,
A tongue that is foreign to truth.
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Where Honor is barely an oath;Where knaves are with noblemen class'd;
Where nature's a stranger to both;
And love an old tale of times past
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Where smiles are the envoys of art;
Where joy lightly swims on the senses,
But never can enter the heart.
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Where hopes and kind hugs are trepanners;Where Virtue's divorc'd from success;
Where cringing goes current for manners,
And worth is no deeper than dress.
Where Favour creeps lamely, on crutches;
Where Friendship is nothing but face;
And the title of Duke, or of Duchess,
Is all that entitles to Grace.
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