Humanity, or the rights of nature, a poem in two books. By the author of sympathy [i.e. S. J. Pratt] |
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In cultur'd, or in savage Souls inspire?
The rights of Nature and of God to save,
Men scoop the rock and build upon the wave,
Explore the barren sand, the marshes drear,
And a free Cottage in the desert rear,
Delight in hollow of some cave to dwell,
Or dig thro' Earth the independent cell.
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