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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Mean time to soothe her speeds a generous throng,
To cheer her labour, and assist her song;
These, while she tries the unattempted way,
Shall bid her soar and animate her Lay;
And tho' the fiends who dread the Muse should rise,
With Serpent malice hiss her as she flies,
Full many a laurell'd Bard to Science dear
Compose her Terrors, and her Spirits cheer,
And while she droops beneath the growing Toil,
Her Song approve, and give th'inspiring smile.
To cheer her labour, and assist her song;
These, while she tries the unattempted way,
Shall bid her soar and animate her Lay;
And tho' the fiends who dread the Muse should rise,
With Serpent malice hiss her as she flies,
Full many a laurell'd Bard to Science dear
Compose her Terrors, and her Spirits cheer,
And while she droops beneath the growing Toil,
Her Song approve, and give th'inspiring smile.
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