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LINES WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST - 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 WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST

Sent in an undated letter to Martha Blount.

  • All hail, once pleasing, once inspiring shade,
  • Scene of my youthful loves, and happier hours!
  • Where the kind Muses met me as I stray’d,
  • And gently press’d my hand, and said, ‘Be ours.’
  • Take all thou e’er shalt have, a constant Muse:
  • At Court thou mayst be liked, but nothing gain:
  • Stocks thou mayst buy and sell, but always lose;
  • And love the brightest eyes, but love in vain.