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Alexander Pope: Minor poems

Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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IX. LINES

To King George II.

O all-accomplish'd Cæsar! on thy Shelf
Is room for all Pope's Works—and Pope himself:
'Tis true, Great Bard, thou on my shelf shall lye
With Oxford, Cowper, Noble Strafford by:
But for thy Windsor, a New Fabric Raise
And There Triumphant Sing Thy Soverain's Praise.