Date: 1770
"These objects banish care, they set us loose / From mean attachments, and compose our souls / For fine impressions, and for heavenly airs:"
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Date: 1773, 1810
"Must not a being, then, by nature wrought, / To show her power in matter, and in thought, /Each light impression thrilling through his frame, /Inspired by heaven's most sublimated flame;"
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Date: 1777, 1810
"The soul's impression they no longer share; / His soul is hovering round his distant fair."
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