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NEW POEMS Brave as at first, in his new garb of print,

Shines forth the Elizabethan. But when Death,

The unforgettable shepherd, shall have come

And numbered us with these, the numberless,

The inheritors of slumber and neglect—

O correspondent of the immortal dead,

Shall any pious hand re-edit us?

CLXXIII

TO THE STORMY PETREL

TO HIS WIFE, ON HER BIRTHDAY.

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