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[To please Pygmalion, Heav'n inspir'd with Life]

To please Pygmalion, Heav'n inspir'd with Life
A Tongueless Stone, of which he made a Wife;
Wou'd Heav'n, all-gracious, hear Asino's moan,
His Wife—her Tongue at least—wou'd soon be Stone.