Date: 1735, 1792
"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"
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Date: 1735, 1792
"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"
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Date: 1735, 1792
The mind "speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod" as "The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields"
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Date: 1735, 1792
"Tho' winding paths" the soul's "sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie"
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Date: 1735, 1792
"Such haply by that Côon artist known, / Seated apparent queen on Fancy's throne; / From thence thy shape his happy canvas blest, / And colours dipt in heaven thy heavenly form confest"
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