"Nothing can describe the soul: / 'Tis a region half unknown, / That has treasures of its own. / More remote from public view / Than the bowels of Peru; / Broader 'tis, and brighter far, / Than the golden Indies are; / Ships that trace the wat'ry stage / Cannot coast it in an age; / Harts, or horses, strong and fleet, / Had they wings to help their feet, / Could not run it half-way o'er / In ten thousand days or more."
True Riches [from Horae Lyricae, 2nd ed.]
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See Isaac Watts, <u>Hor&aelig; Lyric&aelig;. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books</u>, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW110272883&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Searching <u>The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.</u>, 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810).