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Learn, that the present hour alone is man's.
The Tragedy of Irene (1749)
Strange! that this general fraud from day to day
Should fill the world with wretches undetected.
The Tragedy of Irene (1749)
In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust:
Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
The Tragedy of Irene (1749)
There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,
And wake from ignorance the Western World.
The Tragedy of Irene (1749)
Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail,
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain.
With merit needless, and without it vain.
In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust:
Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
The Tragedy of Irene (1749)
A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it.
A feeble government, eluded Laws,
A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles,
And all the maladies of stinking states.
The Tragedy of Irene (1749)