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Date: 1788
"The storm once past, he gains the friendly ray / Of hope, to guide him through the dang'rous way; / Smiling, she bids each future prospect rise, / Through fancy's vary'd mirror, to his eyes."
preview | full record— Falconar, Maria (b. 1771-) and Harriet (b. 1774-)
Date: 1788
"Not so the slave; oppress'd with secret care, / He sinks the hapless victim of despair; / Or, doom'd to torments that might even move / The steely heart, and melt it into love; / Till worn with anguish, with'ring in his bloom, / He falls an early tenant of the tomb!"
preview | full record— Falconar, Maria (b. 1771-) and Harriet (b. 1774-)
