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The Poetical Works of Anna Seward

With Extracts from her Literary Correspondence. Edited by Walter Scott ... In Three Volumes

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WITH A LOCK OF THE AUTHOR's HAIR,

TO A GENTLEMAN WHO REQUESTED IT.

Not with the bright, yet dangerous rose of love,
By Florio's hand, be this light lock enwove,
But with the lily, cull'd from Friendship's bowers,
That hides no thorns beneath its snowy flowers.