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Madmoments: or First Verseattempts

By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison

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WE HAVE ALL WE CAN HAVE IF WE PLEASE.

Who thinks that future Gains or Goods will make
Him happier than he is, or can be now
Tho' living by the Sweat of his own Brow,
Is much mistaken—all things from us take

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Their value: and the coarse Bread, for whose sake
We toil, does to that very Labour owe
Blessings the Bread of Ease can never know:
What is more sweet than Water if it slake
Real Thirst? and what can slake so well the real
And divine Thirst of Heart, as Feelings pure
And simple? the sole Thirst that can endure:
In calm Selfconsciousness lies Man's true Weal:
And with this thou art neither rich nor poor,
But godlike! for 'tis God that thou dost feel!