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XIV
TO A REACTIONARY
Unblest, whom tartness of unmellowed eld
Doth from thy day's accumulating dower
Of thought and lore estrange, which, hadst thou power,
Thou wouldst efface, unheard and unbeheld.
Warped from her wont, hath Nature then withheld
From thee the quickening sun, the tempering shower;
Fragrance denied to full expanded flower;
Nor with the flagoned vine the vat excelled?
Old poet-preacher, deemest thou that Truth,
Triumphal treading on her trophied way,
Will turn her round to dance unto thy pipe?
Not Gods but stones attend Amphion's lay.
Intolerance is comedy in youth;
But 'tis most tragic to be sour and ripe.
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