"I am this crumb of dust which is design'd / To make my Pen unto thy Praise alone, / And my dull Phancy I would gladly grinde / Unto an Edge on Zions Pretious Stone."
"Prologue" from Preparatory Meditations
Axelrod, Steven Gould, Camille Roman, and Thomas J. Travisano. <u>The New Anthology of American Poetry</u>. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003