LII.

'Nor less to regulate man's moral frame

'Science exerts her all-composing sway.

'Flutters thy breast with fear, or pants for fame,

'Or pines, to indolence and spleen a prey,

'Or avarice, a fiend more fierce than they?

'Flee to the shade of Academus' grove;

'Where cares molest not, discord melts away

'In harmony, and the pure passions prove,

'How sweet the words of truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

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