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Upon The Subject	A
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When all the fiercer passions cease	B
The glory and disgrace of youth	C
When the deluded soul in peace	B
Can listen to the voice of truth	C
When we are taught in whom to trust	D
And how to spare to spend to give	E
Our prudence kind our pity just	D
'Tis then we rightly learn to live	F
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Its weakness when the body feels	G
Nor danger in contempt defies	H
To reason when desire appeals	G
When on experience hope relies	H
When every passing hour we prize	H
Nor rashly on our follies spend	I
But use it as it quickly flies	H
With sober aim to serious end	I
When prudence bounds our utmost views	J
And bids us wrath and wrong forgive	E
When we can ealmly gain or lose	J
'Tis then we rightly learn to live	F
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Yet thus when we our way discern	K
And can upon our care depend	I
To travel safely when we learn	K
Behold we're near our journey's end	I
We've trod the maze of error round	L
Long wand'ring in the winding glade	M
And now the torch of truth is found	L
It only shows us where we stray'd	M
Light for ourselves what is it worth	N
When we no more our way can choose	J
For others when we hold it forth	O
They in their pride the boon refuse	J
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By long experience taught we now	P
Can rightly judge of friends and foes	Q
Can all the worth of these allow	P
And all their faults discern in those	Q
Relentless hatred erring love	R
We can for sacred truth forego	S
We can the warmest friend reprove	R
And bear to praise the fiercest foe	R
To what effect Our friends are gone	T
Beyond reproof regard or care	U
And of our foes remains there one	V
The mild relenting thought to share	U
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Now 'tis our boast that we can quell	W
The wildest passions in their rage	X
Can their destructive force repel	W
And their impetuous wrath assuage	X
Ah Virtue dost thou arm when now	P
This bold rebellious race are fled	Y
When all these tyrants rest and thou	P
Art warring with the mighty dead	Y
Revenge ambition scorn and pride	Z
And strong desire and fierce disdain	A2
The giant brood by thee defied	Z
Lo Time's resistless strokes have slain	A2
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Yet Time who could that race subdue	B2
O'erpowering strength appeasing rage	X
Leaves yet a persevering crew	B2
To try the failing powers of age	X
Vex'd by the constant call of these	C2
Virtue a while for conquest tries	H
But weary grown and fond of ease	C2
She makes with them a compromise	H
Av'rice himself she gives to rest	D2
But rules him with her strict commands	E2
Bids Pity touch his torpid breast	D2
And Justice hold his eager hands	E2
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Yet is their nothing men can do	B2
When chilling age comes creeping on	F2
Cannot we yet some good pursue	B2
Are talents buried genius gone	T
If passions slumber in the breast	D2
If follies from the heart be fled	Y
Of laurels let us go in quest	D2
And place them on the poet's head	Y
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Yes we'll redeem the wasted time	G2
And to neglected studies flee	H2
We'll build again the lofty rhyme	G2
Or live Philosophy with thee	H2
For reasoning clear for flight sublime	G2
Eternal fame reward shall be	H2
And to what glorious heights we'll climb	G2
The admiring crowd shall envying see	H2
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Begin the song begin the theme	I2
Alas and is Invention dead	Y
Dream we no more the golden dream	I2
Is Mem'ry with her treasures fled	Y
Yes 'tis too late now Reason guides	J2
The mind sole judge in all debate	K2
And thus the important point decides	J2
For laurels 'tis alas too late	K2
What is possess'd we may retain	A2
But for new conquests strive in vain	A2
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Beware then Age that what was won	V
If life's past labours studies views	J
Be lost not now the labour's done	V
When all thy part is not to lose	J
When thou canst toil or gain no more	L2
Destroy not what was gain'd before	L2
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For all that's gain'd of all that's good	M2
When time shall his weak frame destroy	N2
Their use then rightly understood	M2
Shall man in happier state enjoy	N2
Oh argument for truth divine	O2
For study's cares for virtue's strife	R
To know the enjoyment will be thine	O2
In that renew'd that endless life	R

George Crabbe

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