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Victorious joy! which breaks the clouds,
and struggles thro' a storm;
Proclaims the mind as great, as good;
and bids it doubly charm:
and struggles thro' a storm;
Proclaims the mind as great, as good;
and bids it doubly charm:
If doubly charming in our sex,
a sex, by nature, bold;
What then in yours? 'Tis diamond there
triumphant o'er our gold.
a sex, by nature, bold;
What then in yours? 'Tis diamond there
triumphant o'er our gold.
And should not this complaint repress?
and check the rising sigh?
Yet farther opiate to your pain
I labour to supply.
and check the rising sigh?
Yet farther opiate to your pain
I labour to supply.
Since spirits greatly damp'd distort
ideas of delight,
Look thro' the medium of a friend,
to set your notions right:
ideas of delight,
Look thro' the medium of a friend,
to set your notions right:
As tears the sight, grief dims the soul;
its object dark appears;
True friendship, like a rising sun,
the soul's horizon clears.
its object dark appears;
True friendship, like a rising sun,
the soul's horizon clears.
A friend's an optic to the mind
with sorrow clouded o'er;
And gives it strength of sight to see
redress unseen before.
with sorrow clouded o'er;
And gives it strength of sight to see
redress unseen before.
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