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"The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality"
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Date: 1743
"Why are friends ravish'd from us? 'Tis to bind, / By soft Affection's ties, on human hearts, / The thought of death, which Reason, too supine, / Or misemploy'd, so rarely fastens there."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"Passion, blind Passion, impotently pours / Tears that deserve more tears, while Reason sleeps, / Or gazes, like an idiot, unconcern'd, / Nor comprehends the meaning of the storm."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Tis the cradle of the Soul, / From Instinct sent, to rock her in disease, / Which her physician, Reason, will not cure."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)