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NHG-P.771.043
23 Aug 1771:32 (775)
TRUTH AND ERROR.
How bold and open, is eternal truth!
Blooming and fair, in everlasting youth.
How free and easy her majestic gait?
Like some bright goddess clad in heavenly state,
Divinely calm she spreads her charms abroad,
Free from the stains of artifice and fraud,
Nobly she walks amid the blaze of day,
Nor fears the critic's eye, nor keen survey,
But bids the deep-read sage ply all his art;
Canvass her nature, and look thro' her heart.
. . . [12 more lines, dated] Dartmouth-College,
New-Hampshire, Aug. 1771.
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