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��M. S.

��TO THE MEMORY OF

' A Female whom Sickness had reconciled to the ' N'otes of Sorrow,'

Who corresponded with the Author under this signature, on the first puhlication of his Poems, in 1806, but died soon after; when her real name and merits were dis- closed to him by one of her surviving friends.

��IVIy Song of Sorrow reach'd her ear; She raised her languid head to hear, And, smiling in the arms of Death, Consoled me with her latest breath.

What is the Poet's highest aim. His richest heritage of fame ?

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