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Date: 1743
"The noblest spirit, fighting her hard fate / In this damp, dusky region, charged with storms, / But feebly flutters, yet untaught to fly; / Or, flying, short her flight, and sure her fall."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)