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 Afflictions make Men Stupid, Nature winks,

And Sene o'relaid, he acts before he thinks;

Subjected Nature fetter'd with Ditres

Dozes, and Bondage does the Soul poes,

Endeavour Slacknes, all the Propects dy,

And with the Hope, the Love of Liberty.

Yet under all the Hardhips of their State,

They've omething eems to claim a ofter Fate;

Nor does it claim alone, The Grand Portent

Foretells the Bleing, and decrees th'Event.

'Tis plainly printed on the Painful Brow,

They hall not always be uppret as now;

Th'approaching Light at Ditance dawns, the Ray

Darts a Dim Earnet of the Welcome Day.

When leeping Bondage doom'd to lating Night,

Shall help to make the Chearing Beam more bright.

Th'enlighten'd Crowd hall their own Freedom ee,

For willful Blindnes only, huts out Liberty;

Bondage is Ignorance, and he that ees,

Needs no directer Cure for that Dieae.

Knowledge and Liberty go Hand in Hand,

Fools only will obey, when Knaves command;

The Sordid Yoke no longer can be born,

When once he ees he mut the Grievance corn;