Date: 1782
The soul may be "emancipated" and "unoppress'd"
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Date: 1782
The mind may slumber sweetly in vice's snares, her "polish'd neck" bent beneath tyranny's "usurp'd command"
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Date: 1782
"The mind attains beneath her [Freedom's] happy reign / The growth that nature meant she should attain."
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