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Alexander Pope - Sound and Sense
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, 
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 
`Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, 
The sound must seem an echo to the sense: 
Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, 
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; 
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, 
The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar; 
When Ajax strives some rock`s vast weight to throw, 
The line too labors, and the words move slow; 
Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, 
Flies o`er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. 
Hear how Timotheus` varied lays surprise, 
And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
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