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TO HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR by AUGUSTUS CAESAR

First Line: IF ANTIQUE SWAINS WAN SUCH IMMORTAL PRAISE
Last Line: THAT CHARM'ST NOT THEM BUT MEN WITH THY SWEET SONGS?
Subject(s): BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591-1645);
IF antique swains wan such immortal praise,
Though they alone with their melodious lays
Did only charm the woods and flow'ry lawns,
Satyrs, and floods, and stones, and hairy fawns:
How much, brave youth, to thy due worth belongs,
That charm'st not them but men with thy sweet songs?



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