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Date: 1654
"We often see stones hang with drops not from any innate moisture, but from a thick air about them; so may we sometime see marble-hearted sinners seem full of contrition, but it is not from any dew of grace within but from some black clouds that impends them, which produces these sweating effects."
preview | full record— Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
Date: 1682-1735
"I am this crumb of dust which is design'd / To make my Pen unto thy Praise alone, / And my dull Phancy I would gladly grinde / Unto an Edge on Zions Pretious Stone."
preview | full record— Taylor, Edward (1642-1729)
Date: 2010
"Yet as I lift up this / dull desert stone, the weight of it is full / of slower, longer thoughts than mind can have."
preview | full record— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)
