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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Next varying modes of Liberty survey,
From where she thrives to where she melts away,
Now proud to claim the independent soul,
Now her tame Spirit passive to controul,
For ever weak where tyranny assails,
For ever strong where milder rule prevails,
There like vile oxen stooping to the yoke,
Here gaining sudden freedom at a stroke.
From where she thrives to where she melts away,
Now proud to claim the independent soul,
Now her tame Spirit passive to controul,
For ever weak where tyranny assails,
For ever strong where milder rule prevails,
There like vile oxen stooping to the yoke,
Here gaining sudden freedom at a stroke.
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