Note 79:1 — TO A FRIEND[78:1]
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I utterly recant the sentiment contained in the lines—
'Of whose omniscient and all-spreading Love Aught to implore were impotence of mind,'
it being written in Scripture, 'Ask, and it shall be given you,' and my human reason being moreover convinced of the propriety of offering petitions as well as thanksgivings to Deity. [Note of S. T. C., in Poems, 1797 and 1803.]