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Date: 1810
"Had Bethlehem's star, of humble swains the guide; / Of souls, unclouded with pedantick pride; / On thee benighted, beamed, with friendly ray, / With all the light of evangelick day; / Ideas, in thy brain, had held no dance / Of anarchy, thou citizen of France!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1815
The wavering motions of the mind are like "quivering light" reflected off a confined "crystal flood" in a brass cistern
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1888
"I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul."
preview | full record— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
Date: 1888
"It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
preview | full record— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
