Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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THE PEN.
With this, as little as it seems, can oneWork Wonders! build up Cities, plough the Waste,
Alter Costumes and Laws, and change the Taste
Of Nations, set up Thrones and pluck them down!
What Priviledge then claims it as its own?
Or what strange Subjects 'neath its Sway are placed,
That thus with a few Strokes can be effaced
Things grey as Time, familiar as the Sun?
Men's Thoughts! these move all! act but on the Thought
And Will of Man, and then the Lever by
Which mightiest Revolutions have been wrought
Is in thy one weak Hand! lost to Man's Eye
Perhaps, like God, by few or known or sought,
Thou with two Fingers mov'st the World's Machinery!
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