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30 The world befits a busy brain,—

I'll hie me to its haunts again.

But if, in some succeeding year,

When Britain's "May is in the sere,"

Thou hear'st of one, whose deepening crimes

Suit with the sablest of the times,

Of one, whom love nor pity sways,

Nor hope of fame, nor good men's praise;

One, who in stern Ambition's pride,

Perchance not blood shall turn aside;

One ranked in some recording page

With the worst anarchs of the age,

Him wilt thou know—and knowing pause,

Nor with the effect forget the cause. Newstead Abbey, Oct. 11, 1811. [First published, Life, 1830.]

TO THYRZA.

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