Date: 1808
A woman may stretch "her blameless empire o'er the heart."
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Date: 1808
"She'd touch the callous mind, unus'd to feel, / With savage virtue, and the lawless zeal"
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Date: 1808
"Yet adamantine souls, and iron forms, / Hard brac'd by toil, and nurst among the storms, / Whom pleasure ne'er could melt, or terror freeze, / Can trace undaunted even such scenes as these"
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Date: 1808
"With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies."
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Date: 1808
"Draw close those ties, so fine and yet so strong, / That gently lead the willing soul along, / Nor crush beneath oppression's iron rod / The kindred image of the parent God; / Nor think that rigour's galling chains can bind / The native force of the superior mind."
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