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"From Whig to Tory"
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"On Dr. Brown's death. [from the "Satires" Notebook]"
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"Restoration"
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Date: w. 1702-1713
"Loos'd from ye chains of flesh his freer mind / Rose up to sacred love, / To perfect saint or seraphim refin'd, / Quitting his lump of clay, / As subtle spirits fume away / Loos'd from their earth they upward mount, they flye, / They light, they shine, & blaze along the skye."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)