Date: 1801
"My soul her bondage ill endures; / I pant for liberty like yours."
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Date: 1815
"You bid me write to amuse the tedious hours, / And save from withering my poetic powers; / Hard is the task, my friend, for verse should flow / From the free mind, not fetter'd down by woe."
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