Date: 1783
"In lucent words my darkling verses dight, / And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams,"
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Date: 1783
" And when thou yields to night thy wide domain, / Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain."
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Date: 1783
The senses may "sing and dance round Reason's fine-wrought throne"
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Date: 1783
"O sheathe their hearts with triple steel, that they / May emulate their fathers' virtues"
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Date: 1783
"He carries windows / In that enlarged breast of his, that all / May see what's done within"
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Date: 1783
"The enemy fight in chains, invisible chains, but heavy; / Their minds are fetter'd; then how can they be free, / While, like the mounting flame, / We spring to battle o'er the floods of death?"
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Date: 1787-1818
"The countless gold of a merry heart / The rubies & pearls of a loving eye / The indolent never can bring to the mart / Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury"
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Date: w. 1787-1818
"You say reserve & modesty he has / Whose heart is iron his head wood & his face brass."
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Date: 1788
"Since our most wicked act / Is not our sin, and our religious awe / Delusion, if that strong Necessity / Chains up our will."
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Date: 1788
"The Mind herself, best judge of her own state, / Is feelingly convinced; nor to be moved / By subtle words, that may perplex the head, / But ne'er persuade the heart."
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