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  • Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope, and nod on the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has planned, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land.

    - Alexander Pope
    Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Burlington', l.173^6.

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