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LINES ON DR. ROBERT SMITH by THOMAS GRAY

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First Line: DO YOU ASK WHY OLD FOCUS SILVANUS DEFIES
Last Line: BUT BECAUSE HE HAS WRIT ABOUT SEEING.
Subject(s): CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; CHESTNUT TREES;

Do you ask why old Focus Silvanus defies,
And leaves not a chestnut in being?
'Tis not that old Focus himself has got eyes,
But because he has writ about Seeing.



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