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ere learn, ye mountains more unjust, Which to abrupter greatness thrust, lo That do, with your hook-shouldered height. The earth deform, and heaven fright. For whose excrescence, ill designed. Nature must a new centre find, 2 ANDREW MARVELL, Learn here those humble steps to tread,Which to securer glory lead.See what a soft access, and wide,Lies open to its grassy side,* Nor with the rugged path detersThe feet of breathless travellers ; 2C See then how courteous it ascends,And all the way it rises, bends,Nor for itself the height does gain.But only strives to raise the plain ;Yet thus it all the field commands.And in unenvied greatness stands.Discerning further than the clififOf heaven-daring Teneriff.How glad the weary seamen haste.When they salute it from the mast ! 36 By night, the northern star their wayDirects, and this no less by day.Upon its crest, this mountain grave,A plume of ag^d trees does wave.No hostile hand durst e*er invade.With impious steel, the sacred shade ;For something always did appearOf the Great Master's terror there,And men could hear his armour still,Rattling through all the grove and hill. 40 Fear of the Master, and respectOf the great njrmph, did it protect ;Vera, the nymph, that him inspired, <«. UPON THE HILL AT BILLBOROW. 3 To whom he often here retired, z And on these oaks engraved her name, — ^ "* ' ' Such wounds alone these woods became ; But ere he well the barks could part, Twas writ already in their heart ; For they, *tis credible, have sense. As we, of love and reverence, 50
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