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"The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality"
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Date: 1742
"How, like a worm, was I wrapt round and round / In silken thought, which reptile Fancy spun, / Till darken'd Reason lay quite clouded o'er / With soft conceit of endless comfort here, / Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
