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On Mrs Tofts, a Celebrated Opera Singer
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Arts & Sciences
So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song,
As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along:
But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride,
That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died.
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MLA
Pope, Alexander. “On Mrs Tofts, a Celebrated Opera Singer.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/pope/109/.
Chicago
Pope, Alexander. “On Mrs Tofts, a Celebrated Opera Singer.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/pope/109/.
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