For His Chaste Muse Employ'd Her Heaven-taught Lyre None But The Noblest Passions To Inspire, Not One Immoral, One Corrupted Thought, One Line Which, Dying, He Could Wish To Blot.

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For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre
None but the noblest passions to inspire,
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,
One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
-- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773)
-- Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus

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