The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, foreve…

Alexander Pope
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. ✨ Alexander Pope (2011). The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings: Poems and Other Writings, p.106, Penguin UK
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. ✨ Alexander Pope (1824). The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations, p.385
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