[30] ] This article appeared in the August number of 1788, and created a great sensation in all classes of society.

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“I will repay thee in a holier land—

Give thou to me thy youth;

All I can grant thee lies in this command.

I heard, and, trusting in a holier land,

Gave my young joys to Truth.

Give me thy Laura—Give me her whom love

To thy heart’s core endears;

The usurer bliss pays every grief—above!