Note 582 — POEMS 1816-1823.
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{542}["If 'the person' had not by many little dirty sneaking traits provoked it, I should have been silent, though I had observed him. Here follows an alteration. Put—
"Devil with such delight in damning That if at the resurrection Unto him the free selection Of his future could be given 'Twould be rather Hell than Heaven.
You have a discretionary power about showing."—Letter to Murray, November 9, 1820, Letters, 1901, v. 113.]