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TO THE RIVER PO, ON QUITTING LAURA.
Thou Po to distant realms this frame mayst bear, / On thy all-powerful, thy impetuous tide; / But the free spirit that within doth bide / Nor for thy might, nor any might doth care: / Not varying here its course, nor shifting there, / Upon the favouring gale it joys to glide; / Plying its wings toward the laurel's pride, / In spite of sails or oars, of sea or air.