Watchman, what do you prize?
What in you seeks improvement?
Distinguish yourself, man, with truths beyond these miserable walls. Raise our thoughts to higher heights, transport us far from these squalid scenes of misers & beggars & fools--please. What is worthy of notice in the other sphere? Render yourself to reflections on freedom, & Life & the real. It's airless here, and the darkened sky seems to be influencing our companions. Retrieve these moments from the brink of destruction!
Oh! Let your expressions fill up the gap, let your words battle the creeping despairs that besiege me in this place of sloth & licentiousness - TURN THE CONVERSATION TO THE ETERNALLY BEAUTIFUL!
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