Part 2 / Book 1 — The Minstrel. Book i. St. 1.
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Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
The Hermit. Line 8. He thought as a sage, but he felt as a man.
Epigram. The Bucks had dined.
How hard their lot who neither won nor lost.