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1. Amid these mouldering walls this marble round

First Line:: Amid these mouldering walls this marble round
Last Line:: The only happy is the self-approved
Author:: William Whitehead (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27812

2. As all alone I slowly tread

First Line:: As all alone I slowly tread
Last Line:: Man dies to live and lives to die no more
DMI number:: 35270

3. Can the deep statesman skilled in great design

First Line:: Can the deep statesman skilled in great design
Last Line:: The wish that sighs for sublunary things
Author:: John Cunningham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33128

4. For quiet on Newmarket's plain

First Line:: For quiet on Newmarket's plain
Last Line:: Shall guard the laws divine
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25541

5. Ha not a breath of wind no gentle breeze

First Line:: Ha not a breath of wind no gentle breeze
Last Line:: Tis virtue only blossoms in the dust
DMI number:: 25331

6. Good lord what a pass is this world brought to

First Line:: Good lord what a pass is this world brought to
Last Line:: And first find a needle in a bottle of hay
DMI number:: 42940

7. Hence want ungrateful visitant adieu

First Line:: Hence want ungrateful visitant adieu
Last Line:: And universal joy torments the sky
Author:: Henry Brooke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18360

8. How solemn is the pile how still the scenes

First Line:: How solemn is the pile how still the scenes
Last Line:: That honour is virtue and that great is good
Author:: Thomas Drummond (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36216

9. How vain is man how fluttering are his joys

First Line:: How vain is man how fluttering are his joys
Last Line:: Or never hope to meet with happy days
DMI number:: 40583

10. How weak how vain is human pride

First Line:: How weak how vain is human pride
Last Line:: For different tastes please different vermin
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23349