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Alexander Pope: Minor poems

Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Written over a Study; out of Maynard.

In English for Sir W. Trumbull.

Tir'd with vain hopes, and with complaints as vain,
Of anxious love's alternate joy and pain,
Inconstant fortune's favour and her hate,
And unperforming friendships of the great;
Here both contented and resign'd, I lye;
Here learn to live; nor wish, nor fear to die.
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