To flow’r like myrtle, or like violets bloom.
—Man, only,—rash, refined, presumptuous man,
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Starts from his rank, and mars creation’s plan.
Born the free heir of nature’s wide domain,
To art’s strict limits bounds his narrow’d reign;
Resigns his native rights for meaner things,
For faith and fetters—laws, and priests, and kings.
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(To be continued.)