Fight virtue's cause, stand up in wit's defence, Win us from vice, and laugh us into sense. - Thomas Tickell

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There patient show'd us the wise course to steer,
A candid censor, and a friend severe;
There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.

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I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay;
I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away.

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Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed
A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.

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