Chapter 32

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌​​​‌​⁠Lose I not

With him what fortune could in life allot?

Lose I not hope, life's cordial?

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In fact, the lessons he from prudence took

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌​​​‌​⁠Were written in his mind as in a book;

There what to do he read, and what to shun,

And all commanded was with promptness done.

He seemed without a passion to proceed,

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⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌​​​‌​⁠Yet some believed those passions only slept!

CRABBE.

Relics of love, and life's encha