Citation - Boston Gazette: 1781.10.08

BG.781.021
8 Oct 1781:41 (1415)
THE CHOICE.
O happy state!  When soul's each other draw,
Where love is liberty, and nature law;
All then is full, possessing and possest,
No craving void, left asking in the becast:
. . . [2 more lines; credited:]  Eloisa to Abelard.
If ever I should change my state of life,
Grant such a one, O heav'n! may be my wife:
Be she by nature form'd the eye to please, 
With graceful negligence, and native ease,
. . . [1/2 col. signed:]  Philander.