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William Cowper - On the Same - (On the Burning of Lord Mansfield`s Library)
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When wit and genius meet their doom
In all devouring flame, 
They tell us of the fate of Rome, 
And bid us fear the same.

O`er Murray`s loss the Muses wept, 
They felt the rude alarm,
Yet blessed the guardian care that kept 
His sacred head from harm.

There memory, like the bee that`s fed
From Flora`s balmy store,
The quintessence of all he read
Had treasured up before.

The lawless herd, with fury blind,
Have done him cruel wrong;
The flowers are gone, — but still we find
The honey on his tongue.
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