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TO A FRIEND, ENCOURAGING HIM TO PURSUE POETRY.
Torn is each virtue from its earthly throne / By sloth, intemperance, and voluptuous ease; / E'en nature deviates from her wonted ways, / Too much the slave of vicious custom grown.