"Check not the flow of sweet fraternal love, / By Heav'n's high King in bounty giv'n, / Thy stubborn heart to soften and improve, / Thy earth-clad spirit to refine, / And gradual raise to love divine, /  And wing its soaring flight to Heav'n!"
An Irregular Ode, To Mrs. Eliz. Carter [from Works of Epictetus]
Text from Hester Chapone, <u>Miscellanies in Prose and Verse</u>, 3rd edition (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly ... and J. Walter, 1777). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MBAlAAAAMAAJ">Link to 3rd edition in Google Books</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NytPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false">Link to version printed in Elizabeth Carter's translation of Epictetus, in Google Books</a>&gt;