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Date: 1735, 1763
"Turn'd on its self its num'rous wants are seen, / And all the mighty void that lies within / Yet cannot wisdom stamp our joys complete; / 'Tis conscious virtue crowns the blest retreat."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)