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Rh They know me as their son, for side by side,

They were coeval with my ancestors,

Adorned with them my country's primitive times,

And soon may give my dust their funeral shade.

, June, 1827.

GOOD HOPE

LINES TO ELLEN

me, maiden, dost thou use

Thyself thro' Nature to diffuse?

All the angles of the coast

Were tenanted by thy sweet ghost,