Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 83.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Public domain (United States)
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