That glad and golden law, all free, all fitted,

Which Nature’s own hand wrote⁠—What pleases, is permitted.”

“O lovely age of gold! Not that the rivers rolled With milk, or that the woods wept honeydew; Not that the ready ground Produced without a wound, Or the mild serpent had no tooth that slew; Not that a cloudless blue Forever was in sight, Or that the heaven which burns, And now is cold by turns, Looked out in glad and everlasting light; No, nor that even the insolent ships from far Brought war to no new lands, nor riches worse than war:

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