"How blessings brighten as they take their flight."
"O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone."
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Source: William Danby, Edward Young (1832). “Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them”, p.15
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