INTRODUCTORY DEDICATION.

To

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THE strain, that naught but truth can boast, The fond and grateful strain, receive: But ah!' tis those who owe the most, Have least to give!

It asks indulgence tow'rd the lays

Which it anew* inscribes to thee;

Asks that the love it thus displays May welcome be.

* The first manuscript copy of them was thus inscribed.