Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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GOLD.
I value thee but even as thou artIn Wisdom's Sight, yet thou too mayst be made
The Minister of generous Thoughts, and aid
The nobler Beatings of the human Heart
In thy brute Fashion! Wisdom can impart
Even to thee, so oft to vain Parade
By Folly's unreflecting Hand betrayed,
High Uses, and by her discerning Art
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With Feelings, Thoughts, and Hopes, of divine Birth,
Into Collision come, with Things that ne'er
Have bowed themselves from their celestial Worth
To thy lowthoughted and changetroubled Sphere,
I tread thee down into thy kindred Earth!
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