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A thoughtful Being long and spare	A
Our Race of Mortals call him Care	A
Were Homer living well he knew	B
What Name the Gods have call'd him too	B
With fine Mechanick Genius wrought	C
And lov'd to work tho' no one bought	D
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This Being by a Model bred	E
In Jove's eternal sable Head	E
Contriv'd a Shape impow'rd to breathe	F
And be the Worldling here beneath	G
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The Man rose staring like a Stake	H
Wond'ring to see himself awake	H
Then look'd so wise before he knew	B
The Bus'ness he was made to do	B
That pleas'd to see with what a Grace	I
He gravely shew'd his forward Face	I
Jove talk'd of breeding him on high	J
An Under something of the Sky	J
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But e'er he gave the mighty Nod	K
Which ever binds a Poet's God	K
For which his Curls Ambrosial shake	H
And Mother Earth's oblig'd to quake	H
He saw old Mother Earth arise	L
She stood confess'd before his Eyes	L
But not with what we read she wore	M
A Castle for a Crown before	M
Nor with long Streets and longer Roads	N
Dangling behind her like Commodes	N
As yet with Wreaths alone she drest	K
And trail'd a Landskip painted Vest	K
Then thrice she rais'd as Ovid said	K
And thrice she bow'd her weighty Head	K
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Her Honours made Great Jove she cry'd	K
This Thing was fashion'd from my Side	K
His Hands his Heart his Head are mine	O
Then what hast thou to call him thine	O
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Nay rather ask the Monarch said	K
What boots his Hand his Heart his Head	K
Were what I gave remov'd away	P
Thy Part's an idle Shape of Clay	P
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Halves more than Halves cry'd honest Care	A
Your Pleas wou'd make your Titles fair	A
You claim the Body you the Soul	Q
But I who join'd them claim the whole	Q
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Thus with the Gods Debate began	R
On such a trivial Cause as Man	R
And can Celestial Tempers rage	S
Quoth Virgil in a later Age	S
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As thus they wrangled Time came by	J
There's none that paint him such as I	J
For what the Fabling Antients sung	T
Makes Saturn old when Time was young	T
As yet his Winters had not shed	K
Their silver Honours on his Head	K
He just had got his Pinions free	U
From his old Sire Eternity	U
A Serpent girdled round he wore	M
The Tail within the Mouth before	M
By which our Almanacks are clear	V
That learned gypt meant the Year	V
A Staff he carry'd where on high	J
A Glass was fix'd to measure by	J
As Amber Boxes made a Show	W
For Heads of Canes an Age ago	W
His Vest for Day and Night was py'd	U
A bending Sickle arm'd his Side	U
And Spring's new Months his Train adorn	X
The other Seasons were unborn	X
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Known by the Gods as near he draws	N
They make him Umpire of the Cause	N
O'er a low Trunk his Arm he laid	U
Where since his Hours a Dial made	U
Then leaning heard the nice Debate	U
And thus pronounc'd the Words of Fate	U
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Since Body from the Parent Earth	Y
And Soul from Jove receiv'd a Birth	Y
Return they where they first began	R
But since their Union makes the Man	R
'Till Jove and Earth shall part these two	B
To Care who join'd them Man is due	B
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He said and sprung with swift Career	V
To trace a Circle for the Year	V
Where ever since the Seasons wheel	Z
And tread on one another's Heel	Z
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'Tis well said Jove and for consent	U
Thund'ring he shook the Firmament	U
Our Umpire Time shall have his Way	P
With Care I let the Creature stay	P
Let Bus'ness vex him Av'rice blind	U
Let Doubt and Knowledge rack his Mind	U
Let Error act Opinion speak	A2
And Want afflict and Sickness break	H
And Anger burn Dejection chill	B2
And Joy distract and Sorrow kill	B2
'Till arm'd by Care and taught to Mow	W
Time draws the long destructive Blow	W
And wasted Man whose quick decay	P
Comes hurrying on before his Day	P
Shall only find by this Decree	U
The Soul flies sooner back to Me	U

Thomas Parnell

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