The Study of Poetry • Paragraph 1233
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So, you saw yourself as you wished you were, As you might have been, as you cannot be; Earth here, rebuked by Olympus there: And grew content in your poor degree With your little power, by those statues’ godhead, And your little scope, by their eyes’ full sway, And your little grace, by their grace embodied, And your little date, by their forms that stay.