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"Nineteenth Century"
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"A Walking Rumination [from Nugæ Modernæ: Morning thoughts, and midnight musings: consisting of casual reflections, egotisms, &c. In prose and verse. By Thomas Park]"
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Date: 1818
"The lake unruffled [i.e., the mind], will reflect / A picture fair of earth and skies; / But how distorted its effect, / When ripples o'er the surface rise."
preview | full record— Park, Thomas (1759-1834)
Date: 1818
"Such mirror is the human mind, / When calm composure gilds our day; / And such, alas! the change we find, / When ruffling passions mark their sway."
preview | full record— Park, Thomas (1759-1834)