Date: 1790
"'Tis thus the arch deceiver, busy still / To ruin man, besets the female heart, / Insinuates evil counsel, and inflames / The hungry passions, that like arid flax / Catch at a spark, and mount into a blaze."
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Date: 1810
"And yet, my heart, within thy silent cell / Dwells a fair image which is lovelier still."
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