Date: 1789, 1794
"In every cry of every Man / In every Infants cry of fear / In every voice; in every ban / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
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Date: 1790
"Yet ruthless Rulers! hearts of stone and steel!"
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Date: 1793
"There, train'd amid slaughter and ruin to wade, / They toil in the heart-steeling, barbarous trade."
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Date: 1793
"Amidst the lustful fires he walks: his feet become like brass, / His knees and thighs like silver, & his breast and head like gold."
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Date: 1794
" The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd / The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge."
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