Name: Alexander's Feast
Author: John Dryden

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John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (1904)

“ Behold how they toss their torches on high,
How they point to the Persian abodes,
And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
The princes applaud with a furious joy;
And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy;
Thais led the way,
To light him to his prey,
And, like another Helen, fired another Troy.
CHORUS. And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy ”

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John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (1904)

“ Drinking is the soldier's pleasure;
Rich the treasure,
Sweet the pleasure,
Sweet is pleasure after pain. ”

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John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (1904)

“ None but the brave deserve the fair. ”

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John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (1904)

“ Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young. ”

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John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (1904)

“ With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.
Let old Timotheus yield the prize,
Or both divide the crown:
He raised a mortal to the skies;
She drew an angel down.
HERE ENDS JOHN DRYDEN'S ALEXANDER'S FEAST, PRINTED AMONG THE GREAT POEMS OF THE LANGUAGE, AT THE ESSEX HOUSE PRESS, CAMPDEN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY REGINALD SAVAGE, AND UNDER THE CARE OF C. R. ASHBEE, ANNO DOM. MDCCCCIV.
Published in England by Edward Arnold, 37 Bedford Street, Strand, and in America by Samuel Buckley & Co., 100 William Street, New York. ”

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