Date: 1805
"Alas! when ev'ry Muse is fled, / How wretched He who writes for bread! / Who, when the joyous years are flown, / And Reason totters on her throne, / And Fancy fails, and Nature tires, / And Fame herself no more inspires, / And ev'n the sweet return of Spring / No more can make the Poet sing, / T...
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Date: 1810
"--Pity, of every generous heart the guest, / As that which dares each colder code refute, / And justifies the ways of man to brute?"
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