What is a law, if those who make it Become the forwardest to break it? - James Beattie

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Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame’s proud temple shines afar?

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By the glare of false science betray’d,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.

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Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down,
Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,
With here and there a violet bestrewn,
Fast by a brook or fountain’s murmuring wave;
And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!

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