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But mind, my friend,
I do not send,
    A kiss to you,
To grant a beau
Such gifts, you know
    Would never do.

Now John, farewell,
For truth to tell,
    To eat and doze,
So takes my time
I scarce can rhyme
    Or write in prose.





Baby of six months old, to her neighbour on his second birth-day.


The rolling earth
Your day of birth,
    Brings fair and fleeting,