I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till after cloying the gazettes with can't, The age discovers he is not the true one, Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend

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The lapse of ages changes all things - time language the earth the bounds of the sea the stars of t

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about around and underneath" man, except man himself.

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Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

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Absence - that common cure of love.

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