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This is the patent age of new inventions

For killing bodies, and for saving souls,

All propagated with the best intentions:

Sir Humphry Davy's lantern,68 by which coals

Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions,

Tombuctoo travels,69 voyages to the Poles70

Are ways to benefit mankind, as true,

Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.