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For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre
None but the noblest passions to inspire,
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,
One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.

— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Poetical Works (1801)

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