Still-born Silence! t art

    Flood-gate of t!

    Offspring of a heavenly kind!

    Frost o the mind!

    Secrecys confident, and he

    ery!

    Admirations speakingst tongue!

    Leave, t shades among,

    Reverend s hallowed cells,

    ired devotion dwells!

    ithusiasms come,

    Seize our tongues, and strike us dumb!*

    [Footnote] * From quot; Poems of all sorts,quot; by Richard Fleckno, 1653.

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    Reader,  t true peace and quiet mean;  titude;  t once solitude and society;  t in stillness,  being s out from tory faces of t t accompanied; solitary, yet not desolate; singular, yet not  some to keep tenance; a unit in aggregate; a simple in composite : -- come o a Quakers Meeting.

    Dost t quot;before t; go not out into t into ties of t not up ts; nor pour o ttle cells of ttle-faitrusting Ulysses. -- Retire o a Quakers Meeting.

    For a man to refrain even from good o  is commendable; but for a multitude, it is great mastery.

    is tillness of t, compared  ting muteness of fis;Boreas, and Cesias, and Argestes loud,quot; do not er-confounding uproars more augment tic e (Silence iplied and rendered more intense by numbers, and by sympatoo  call unto deeps. Negation itself ive more and less; and closed eyes o obscure t obscurity of midnight.

    t solitude cannot  I mean t  tain in cro noing. t s did certainly understand tired into Egyptian solitudes, not singly, but in so enjoy one anot of convers