Alexander Pope
May 21, 2008
born 320 years ago today
“What conscience dictates to be done,
Or warns me not to do,
This teach me more than hell to shun,
That more than heaven pursue.”
- from “Universal Prayer” 1738
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ghost dogg | November 22, 2008 at 5:18 pm
The Link attach’d will take thee to a site
That mimicks Pope in all it dares to Write.
Tho’ Wit and Judgement far behind are left,
It’s hoped that Pope thy Cholick Mood will heft.
Of cult’ral Topicks high and low it sings;
Pierian Springs and You Tube Things it clings.
So, fly to Valley of the Shadwells soon–
Thy clicks, my woful Hackny couplets’ boon!