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Date: 1738, 1792
"Love ... Give the soft sex to loathe inglorious rest, / String the weak arm, and steel the snowy breast!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"More hard than Marble is my Heart, / And foul with Sins of deepest Stain: / But Thou the mighty Saviour art, / Nor flow'd thy cleansing Blood in vain. / Ah! soften, melt this Rock, and may / Thy Blood wash all these Stains away."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles