Classic Poem

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A Mouse some cheese, that in a trap was plac'd,
Survey'd with longing eyes, and wish'd to taste;
With eager joy he seiz'd the luscious bait;
No sooner seiz'd than death became his fate!
So oft mankind are drawn from virtue's way,
And brought in pleasure's flow'ry paths to stray,
Till death, o'ertaking, crops them in their bloom,
And hurls them from their pleasures to the tomb!