Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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LIFE.
Oh! what were this Life if it did not leadTo something better? how could we endure
The Heartache and the Fever without Cure,
Save from allhealing Death, if on a Reed,
Shook by vile Chance's Breath, in this our Need
We were compelled to lean? how far more poor
Than the worst Beggar, if we were not sure
That this our Hope is something more indeed
Than a mere Fancy of the idle Brain!
But that Conviction, springing as it does
From Being's Depths, can pour in Spite of Pain
Its sovereign Calm upon the Soul's worst Throes:
Can quell rebellious Doubts, and place again
Faith on her Throne secure from all her Foes!
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