Citation - New York Journal-New York: 1772.11.26

NYJ-N.772.190
26 Nov 1772:41 (1560)
MOTIVES FOR EARLY RISING, BY THE LATE MISS TALBOT.
Awake, my Laura, break the silken chain,
Awake my friend to hours unsoil'd by pain;
Awake to peaceful joys and thought refin'd,
Youth's cheerful morn, and virtue's vigorous mind;
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But this perhaps was but a summer song,
And winter nights are dark, and cold, and long:
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