The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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Time was, ere avaricious Folly came,
To quench Content, and fan Ambition's flame,
When lowly Labour was well pleased to toil,
Till sterile earth became a teeming soil;
And arts industrious, in their kindred sphere
Made bluntness true, and poverty sincere;
Now, boundless schemes pervade the humblest breast,
And dreams of av'rice lure away its rest;
All push beyond what Providence bestows,
And discontent in every bosom glows.
To quench Content, and fan Ambition's flame,
When lowly Labour was well pleased to toil,
Till sterile earth became a teeming soil;
And arts industrious, in their kindred sphere
Made bluntness true, and poverty sincere;
Now, boundless schemes pervade the humblest breast,
And dreams of av'rice lure away its rest;
All push beyond what Providence bestows,
And discontent in every bosom glows.
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