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Poems

Chiefly Written in Retirement, By John Thelwall; With Memoirs of the Life of the Author. Second Edition

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So roam'd The Hero: such his joyless youth:
His early manhood such: wherever thrown,
In every region—every soil and clime—
In every scene, with unremitting ills
Hemm'd and pursu'd: in dangers, and in woes.