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THE MOUSE's PETITION.
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The cheerful light, the vital air,
Are bleſſings widely given;
Let nature's commoners enjoy
The common gifts of heaven.
The well taught philoſophic mind
To all compaſſion gives;
Casts round the world an equal eye,
And feels for all that lives.
If mind, as ancient ſages taught,
A never dying flame,
Still ſhifts thro' matter's varying forms,
In every form the same,
Beware, leſt in the worm you cruſh
A brother's ſoul you find;
And tremble lest thy luckleſs hand
Diſlodge a kindred mind.
Or,
