While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give…

Alexander Pope
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. ✨ 'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 1, l. 93
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. ✨ 'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 1, l. 93

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