Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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WEALTHCOVETERS.
Better to be a savage, than of theseSelfseeking, grovelling, moneymaking worms,
These Goldwebweavers, who in all their forms,
Are the same Earthgrubs still: the Savage sees
And owns a higher Power in the breeze
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He hearks with holy awe: a soul informs
His breast, ethereal tenant! and sets free
His fancies from Earth's dust and darkness, by
The inborn Majesty of Mind, altho'
Untaught— he errs from ignorance; not so,
Ye Allinstructed, ye whose lives belie
Your proud Enlightenment; ye learn to know
Evil from Good, yet knowledge to worst ends apply!
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