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Written in the Nouveaux Interests des Princes de l'Europe.
Blest be the Princes, who have fought
For Pompous Names, or wide Dominion;
Since by Their Error We are taught,
That Happiness is but Opinion.
For Pompous Names, or wide Dominion;
Since by Their Error We are taught,
That Happiness is but Opinion.
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IMITATED.
Poor little, pretty, flutt'ring Thing,
Must We no longer live together?
And dost Thou prune thy trembling Wing,
To take thy Flight Thou know'st not whither?
Must We no longer live together?
And dost Thou prune thy trembling Wing,
To take thy Flight Thou know'st not whither?
Thy humorous Vein, thy pleasing Folly
Lyes all neglected, all forgot:
And pensive, wav'ring, melancholy,
Thou dread'st and hop'st Thou know'st not what.
Lyes all neglected, all forgot:
And pensive, wav'ring, melancholy,
Thou dread'st and hop'st Thou know'st not what.
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