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DEDICATION.
O'er wastes the traffic-crowded causeway stretch,
And spreading hedges fence the grateful beach;
A genial bloom of softer beauty blow,
Where kinder wishes teach the blush to glow,
While hardy youths resign the darling steel,
And melting, wonder at the warmth they feel.
With kind complacence, you, this verse peruse,
Though rough the numbers, and unknown the muse; 70
For soon, the boldest note her art can sound,
Shall in a people's grateful voice be drowned.
And spreading hedges fence the grateful beach;
A genial bloom of softer beauty blow,
Where kinder wishes teach the blush to glow,
While hardy youths resign the darling steel,
And melting, wonder at the warmth they feel.
With kind complacence, you, this verse peruse,
Though rough the numbers, and unknown the muse; 70
For soon, the boldest note her art can sound,
Shall in a people's grateful voice be drowned.
