"When Reason, on her dictatorial throne, / Argues and pleads, with undecisive tone; / Thy rhetoric of sound, beyond her aid, / Thy lyre-breath'd strains of language can persuade."
On Harmony. Inscribed to Mr Robert Stevenson [from Original Poems on Several Subjects]
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1765, 1775).<br>
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<u>Original Poems on Several Subjects. In Two Volumes. By William Stevenson</u> (Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid. Sold by Alexander Donaldson, in London and Edinburgh, 1765). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T155132">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Found also in <u>The Caledoniad. A Collection of Poems, Written Chiefly by Scottish Authors.</u> (London: Printed by W. Hay; and sold at his shop, next to the Academy of Artists, near Exeter Exchange, Strand, 1775). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113074146&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;