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Oh Nature! ever lovely, ever new, He whom his earliest vows has paid to you Still finds, that life has something to bestow; And while to dark Forgetfulness they go, Man, and the works of man; immortal Youth, Unfading Beauty, and eternal Truth, Your Heaven-indited volume will display, While Art's elaborate monuments decay, Even as these shatter'd aisles, deserted Monica!