Citation - Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia: 1775.01.09

PP-P.775.003
9 Jan 1775:33 (4/168)
[Extract from Thomson's Poem on Winter]
Ah little think the gay licentious proud, 
Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround;
They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, 
And wanton, often cruel, riot waste;
Ah little think they, while they dance along, 
How many feel this, this very moment, death, 
And all the sad variety of pain.
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