Like you, alas! neglected and alone—
For ah! to me alone no card is come,
I must not go abroad—and cannot Be at Home.
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A French parody of this famous poem by Pope also exists, entitled “Histoire des amours et des infortunes d’Abelard et d’Eloise mise en vers satiré-comi-burlesques,” par M. Armand. Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1724.
From An Essay on Man. Epistle I.
Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor’d mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul, proud science never taught to stray