To-day, in snow array'd, stern winter rules The ravag'd pla… - Tobias Smollett

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To-day, in snow array'd, stern winter rules
The ravag'd plain—Anon the teeming earth
Unlocks her stores, and spring adorns the year:
And shall not we—while fate, like winter, frowns,
Expect revolving bliss?

Tobias Smollett

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Tobias George Smollett (c. March 16, 1721 – September 17, 1771) was a Scottish novelist, translator, historian and editor.

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Those sculptur'd halls my feet shall never tread,
Where varnish'd vice and vanity combin'd,
To dazzle and seduce, their banners spread,
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Ev'n o'er an enemy oppress'd, and heap
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And the mean triumph of a dastard soul.

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