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"To Mr. R---, ON HIS Benevolent Scheme for rescuing Poor Children from Vice and Misery, by Promoting Sunday Schools [from Poems on Several Occasions]"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1785
"O! ye better souls, / Ye nobler few, who slumber in your race, / Tho' well begun, and forwarded with hope, / Say, will you see a fellow-spirit lost, / Thus swallow'd in the ever-yawning gulf, / That frights the mental eye, and e'en appals / The man who firmest stands, nor lend your aid / To sav...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
An infant soul must be lifted to Jehovah's throne because "[T]he ductile mind, / Pliant as wax, shall wear the mould you give"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)