"For what the Bark is to the growing Tree, / To human Mind, that, Patience seems to be; / They hold the Principles of Growth together, / And blunt the Force of Accident, and Weather."
An Epistle from the Author to his Sister, with the Foregoing Soliloquy Inclosed [from Miscellaneous Poems]
2 entries in ESTC (1773).<br>
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See <u>Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes.</u> (Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T227682k/T132225">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HyYJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems of John Byrom</u>, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895).