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First Line: See how that pair of billing doves
Last Line: The pedant priest, and giddy rake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Government; Nature; Pleasure; Religion; Virtue; Theology


SEE how that pair of billing doves
With open murmurs own their loves;
And, heedless of censorious eyes,
Pursue their unpolluted joys:
No fears of future want molest
The downy quiet of their nest;
No interest joined the happy pair,
Securely blest in Nature's care,
While her dear dictates they pursue:
For constancy is nature too.
Can all the doctrine of our schools,
Our moral maxims, our religious rules,
Can learning, to our lives ensure
Virtue so bright, or bliss so pure?
The great Creator's happy hand
Virtue and pleasure ever blends:
In vain the Church and Court have tried
Th' united essence to divide:
Alike they find their wild mistake,
The pedant priest, and giddy rake.





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