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MODERN POETRY
Reluctant praise and meagre kindness,In spite of all thy beauty, see,
O Poetry,
Th' ignoble World now gives to thee:
While Fame, with strange, pretended blindness,
Through whom thou hadst authority
Through many a golden century,
Fares on her way with other company.
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