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b"A Pope read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------\\n\\nNature and Art \\nfrom An Essay on Criticism: Part 1\\nby Alexander Pope (1688 \\u2013 1744)\\n\\nFirst follow Nature, and your judgment frame\\nBy her just standard, which is still the same:\\nUnerring Nature, still divinely bright,\\nOne clear, unchang'd, and universal light,\\nLife, force, and beauty, must to all impart,\\nAt once the source, and end, and test of art.\\nArt from that fund each just supply provides,\\nWorks without show, and without pomp presides:\\nIn some fair body thus th' informing soul\\nWith spirits feeds, with vigour fills the whole,\\nEach motion guides, and ev'ry nerve sustains;\\nItself unseen, but in th' effects, remains.\\nSome, to whom Heav'n in wit has been profuse,\\nWant as much more, to turn it to its use;\\nFor wit and judgment often are at strife,\\nThough meant each other's aid, like man and wife.\\n'Tis more to guide, than spur the Muse's steed;\\nRestrain his fury, than provoke his speed;\\nThe winged courser, like a gen'rous horse,\\nShows most true mettle when you check his course.\\n\\nThose Rules of old discover'd, not devis'd,\\nAre Nature still, but Nature methodis'd;\\nNature, like liberty, is but restrain'd\\nBy the same laws which first herself ordain'd.\\n\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 3 March 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009"