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LINES OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM - Alexander Pope, The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope [1903]

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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Cambridge Edition, ed. Henry W. Boynton (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903).

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LINES OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

  • Muse, ’t is enough, at length thy labour ends,
  • And thou shalt live, for Buckingham commends.
  • Let crowds of critics now my verse assail,
  • Let Dennis write, and nameless numbers rail:
  • This more than pays whole years of thankless pain;
  • Time, health, and fortune, are not lost in vain.
  • Sheffield approves, consenting Phœbus bends,
  • And I and malice from this hour are friends.