Religion
The Apprehension
From Poetical Works, ed. B. Dobell (1906)
Religion
If this I did not every moment see,
And if my thoughts did stray
At any time, or idly play,
And fix on other objects, yet
This Apprehension set
In me
Was all my whole felicity.
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