Date: February 1738
One may be " In State most desponding, by the Light of a Taper, / With Thoughts dull and dark as my Wax, or my Paper"
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Date: 1931
"My Waxen heart, when near the Flame, / Yields to th' imprinted mould" but "hardens in the Cold"
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