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Curse on ungrateful man, that can be pleased, / And yet can starve the author of the pleasure. / O thou, my elder brother in misfortune, / By far my elder brother in the Muses, / With tears I pity thy unhappy fate! / Why is the Bard unpitied by the world, / Yet has so keen a relish of its pleasures?