Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.