“Heaven's all-subduing will,
With good the progeny of ill,
Attempreth every state below.”
Mark Akenside (1721–1770) English poet and physician
Book I, Ode II, No. 2: "On the Winter Solstice", stanza vi, lines 58–60
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)
“The Providence of heaven
Has some peculiar blessing given
To each allotted state below.”
Book I, Ode II, No. 1: "For the Winter Solstice", stanza v, lines 48–50
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)
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