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 Who made me to be happy." "Did that God" Cried Conrade, "form thy heart for happiness When Desolation royally careers Over thy wretched country? did that God Form thee for peace when Slaughter is abroad, When her brooks run with blood, and Rape, and Murder, Stalk thro' her flaming towns? live thou in peace Young man! my heart is fleshly: I do feel For what my brethren suffer." "As he spake, Such mingled passions charactered his face Of fierce and terrible benevolence, That I did tremble as I listened to him. Then in mine heart tumultuous thoughts arose Of high atchievements, indistinct, and wild, And vast, yet such they were that I did pant As tho' by some divinity possess'd.

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