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64 3.

It saw the "light in ninety-eight,"

Sweet babe of one and twenty years!

And then he gives it to the nation

And deems himself of Shakespeare's peers!

4.

He gives the perfect work to light!

Will Wordsworth, if I might advise,

Content you with the praise you get

From Sir George Beaumont, Baronet,

And with your place in the Excise! Ravinna, March 22, 1820. [First published, Paradies, etc., collected ... by Walter Hamilton, 1888, p. 105.]

ON MY WEDDING-DAY.

EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM PITT.