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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 6 — SAPPHO TO PHAON.[1]

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Scrope's couplet exceeds this in simplicity, and to my taste, on the whole, is preferable:

My muse, and lute can now no longer please; These are th' employments of a mind at ease.—Wakefield.

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