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"Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem, Dedicated to the Late Countess of Abingdon"
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Date: 1692
"But when dilated organs let in day / To the young soul, and gave it room to play, / At his first aptness, the maternal love / Those rudiments of reason did improve."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)