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What Beckoning Ghost Along The Moonlight Shade Invites My Steps, And Points To Yonder Glade?
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What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 1
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The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.
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