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First Line: If genius, turned to sordid ends
Last Line: Man fell from edem, fall from athens too.
Subject(s): Troy


If genius, turned to sordid ends
Ye count to glory lost,
How with mankind that flouts the aims
Time's Attic years engrossed?
Waxes the world so rich and old?
Richer and narrower, age's way?
But, primal fervors all displaced
Our arts but serve the clay.
This plaint the sibyls unconsoled renew:
Man fell from Edem, fall from Athens too.





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