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CONSCIOUS OF HIS FOLLY, HE PRAYS GOD TO TURN HIM TO A BETTER LIFE.
Father of heaven! after the days misspent, / After the nights of wild tumultuous thought, / In that fierce passion's strong entanglement, / One, for my peace too lovely fair, had wrought; / Vouchsafe that, by thy grace, my spirit bent / On nobler aims, to holier ways be brought; / That so my foe, spreading with dark intent / His mortal snares, be foil'd, and held at nought.