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  • Tis reason's part
    To govern and to guard the heart,
    To lull the wayward soul to rest,
    When hopes and fears distract the breast;
    Reason may calm this doubtful strife,
    And steer thy bark through various life.

    Nathaniel Cotton (1812). “The Poetical Works of Nathaniel Cotton: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.77