To Be The Father Of The Fatherless, To Stretch The Hand From The Throne'S Height, And Raise His Offspring, Who Expired In Other Days To Make Thy Sire'S Sway By A Kingdom Less, - [Ih] This Is To Be A Monarch, And Repress Envy Into Unutterable Praise. Dismiss Thy Guard, And Trust Thee To Such Traits, For Who Would Lift A Hand, Except To Bless?[Ii] Were It Not Easy, Sir, And Is'T Not Sweet To Make Thyself Belov'D? And To Be Omnipotent By Mercy'S Means? For Thus Thy Sovereignty Would Grow But More Complete, A Despot Thou, And Yet Thy People Free,[Ij] And By The Heart - Not Hand - Enslaving Us. Bologna, August 12, 1819.[590] [First Published, Letters And Journals, Ii. 234, 235.]
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