"Is then my heart to all the world beside / Softer than melting wax or summer snow, / But to myself harder than adamant?"
A Penitential Thought [from Reliquiae Juveniles]
Isaac Watts, <u>Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse, on Natural, Moral, and Divine Subjects; Written Chiefly in Younger Years. By I. Watts, D.D.</u> (London: Printed for Richard Ford at the Angel, and Richard Hett at the Bible and Crown, 1734). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW118403199&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.</u>, 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810).