Date: 1739
"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"
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Date: 1739
"More hard than Marble is my Heart, / And foul with Sins of deepest Stain: / But Thou the mighty Saviour art, / Nor flow'd thy cleansing Blood in vain. / Ah! soften, melt this Rock, and may / Thy Blood wash all these Stains away."
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Date: 1739
"My GOD, what is a Human Heart? / Silver or Gold, or precious Stone; / Or Star, or Rainbow; or a Part / Of All, or all thy World in One?"
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Date: 1739
"Still the small inward voice I hear, / That whispers all my sins forgiven."
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Date: 1740
"Thus lawless conquerors our town restore, / With the sad marks of their inhuman power; / No art, nor time, such ravage can repair; / No superstructure can these ruins bear."
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Date: 1740
"Love, Thy image love, impart, / Stamp it on our face and heart"
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Date: 1740
"Be I, O Thou my better part, / A seal impress'd upon Thy heart:"
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Date: 1740
"To pleasures vain he steel'd his heart; / No room for them when God is there"
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Date: 1741
"Poor Mind, who heard all with extreme moderation, / Thought it now time to speak, and make her allegation: / ''Tis I that, methinks, have most cause to complain, / Who am cramped and confined like a slave in a chain.'"
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Date: 1741
"'I've a friend,' answers Mind, 'who, though slow, is yet sure, / And will rid me at last of your insolent power: / Will knock down your walls, the whole fabric demolish, / And at once your strong holds and my slavery abolish: / And while in your dust your dull ruins decay, / I'll snap off my cha...
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