ABSTRACT
(a) Richard Savage, extract from The Wanderer: A Vision (1729), The Poetical Works of Richard Savage, ed. C. Tracy (1962), pp. 107–8 (ll. 369–78). The poem was advertised on 18 January 1729. O POPE!—Since Envy is decreed by Fate, Since she pursues alone the Wise, and Great; In one small, emblematic Landscape see, How vast a Distance ’twixt thy Foe, and Thee! Truth from an Eminence surveys our Scene, (A Hill, where all is clear, and all serene.) Rude, earth-bred Storms o'er meaner Valleys blow, And wand'ring Mists roll, black'ning, far below; Dark, and debas'd, like them, is Envy's Aim, And clear, and eminent, like Truth, thy Fame.
