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Alexander Pope - Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea
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In vain you boast Poetic Names of yore,
And cite those Sapho`s we admire no more:
Fate doom`d the Fall of ev`ry Female Wit,
But doom`d it then when first Ardelia writ.
Of all Examples by the World confest,
I knew Ardelia could not quote the best;
Who, like her Mistress on Britannia`s Throne;
Fights, and subdues in Quarrels not her own.
To write their Praise you but in vain essay;
Ev`n while you write, you take that Praise away:
Light to the Stars the Sun does thus restore,
But shines himself till they are seen no more.
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