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ON THE PYRAMID IN THE GROUNDS OF MAJOR MOOR, GREAT BEALINGS.
Old Cheops, or Cephrenes might erect,On Egypt's plains, a loftier, prouder pile,
Of more ambitious and elaborate style,
To save his name and memory from neglect.
Thou, happier far than either architect,
Hast reared a humbler edifice the while,
Which neither captives' blood nor tears defile,
Nor thoughts of tyranny's stern yoke infect.
Hence in an English landscape thine but seems
An object with its beauties meet to blend;
The graceful birch beside it loves to bend:—
And if its crest tri-une, inmoonlight's beams,
Recall to fancy Hindu's wilder dreams,
These should not Christian charity offend.
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