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Address
TO
MRS. W——.

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	HASTE, little Book, to Anna tell
	That absence hath not broke the spell,
	Which, round the heart of her who writes,
	Her graceful kindness twined;
	Oh thou, by absence more endeared,
	Whose friendship oft consoled and cheered,
	Still Memory pays thee willing rites,
	The homage of the mind:
	Ah! would that I could fly to thee,
	For thou would'st sooth my misery,
	With care oppressed, no voice delights—
	I none like Anna find.
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	Oh! still believe the mournful Muse,
	The tear which now the line bedews,
	Springs from the fountain of a heart
	Disdainful of each flattering art,
	Where ANNA is enshrined.

January, 1815.