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 What tho' first, In years unseason'd, I attun'd the Lay To idle Passion and unreal Woe? Yet serious Truth her empire o'er my song Hath now asserted: Falshood's evil brood, Vice and deceitful Pleasure, She at once Excluded, and my Fancy's careless toil Drew to the better cause! Author:Mark Akenside.