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"Hail, happy Britain! highly favoured isle, And Heavens peculiar care!"
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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.
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"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."
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"For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay."
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"My hoarse-sounding horn Invites thee to the chase, the sport of kings; Image of war, without its guilt."
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"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."
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