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33

And as a friend
I long to send
    My simple greeting.

Yet almost fear
To have you hear
    My poor inditing,
Your critic smile
Must scorn my style
    Of baby-writing.

Six months have shed
Upon my head
    But little knowledge,
While you are fit
In sense and wit
    To enter college.

My mother said
The map you'd spread
    And shew with ease,