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Oh! that I had the art of easy writing

What should be easy reading! could I scale

Parnassus, where the Muses sit inditing

Those pretty poems never known to fail,

How quickly would I print (the world delighting)

A Grecian, Syrian,[221] or Assyrian tale;

And sell you, mixed with western Sentimentalism,

Some samples of the finest Orientalism.

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