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“PLUS LOIN, PLUS SERRÉ”
“The farther, the closer.”
French Motto on a Cage, from whence a Bird had flown with a String tied fast to its Foot: An Emblem likewise of the sympathetic Power of Friendship, where Hearts more than Persons are united.
The tighter the knot, and the firmer the tye;
Like lovers united, tho' asunder they part,
The stronger the passion, the closer the heart:
The distance is nothing, the farther remov'd,
The more they're unseen, the more each is belov'd.
I have no way then left my release to obtain,
But to turn and go back to my prison again.
To my cage then, the house of my lot, I return;
And there, if I must for my liberty mourn,
As well as I can my confinement I'll bear;
There are thousands each day my captivity share.
Like those then who hold me I'll patient remain,
Till death shall discharge, or time soften my chain.
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