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Date: April 1750, 1791

"Hail, wond'rous Being, who in pow'r supreme / Exists from everlasting, whose great Name / Deep in the human heart, and every atom, / The Air, the Earth or azure Main contains, / In undecypher'd characters is wrote."

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

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Date: June 1753

"My hand, the secretary of my mind, / Leaves thee these lines upon the poplar's rind."

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

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Date: 1765

"That fruit thy covenant may yield, / Which is upon my forehead seal'd, / And on my heart ingraft."

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.