Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water …

Alexander Pope
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. ✨ 'Windsor Forest' (1711) l. 11
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. ✨ 'Windsor Forest' (1711) l. 11

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