Social Commentaries
A Recantation
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
Social Commentaries
Of spleen so dormant, indolence so great,
I've thoughtless flatter'd, what in truth I hate.
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Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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