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"Hail, happy Britain! highly favoured isle, And Heavens peculiar care!"
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William Somervile
William Somervile or Somerville was an English poet who wrote in many genres and is especially remembered for "The Chace", in which he pioneered an early English georgic.
"Hail, happy Britain! highly favoured isle, And Heavens peculiar care!"
"Hail, blooming Youth! May all your virtues with your years improve, Till in consummate worth you shine the pride Of these our days, and succeeding times A bright example."
"For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay."
"My hoarse-sounding horn Invites thee to the chase, the sport of kings; Image of war, without its guilt."
"Whateer of earth is formd, to earth returns, * * * * The soul Of man alone, that particle divine, Escapes the wreck of worlds, when all things fail."