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Carolina

or, Loyal Poems. By Tho. Shipman

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This my Oblation may attone
For all offences he had done.
If in your Favour it finds place,
The Reprobate recovers Grace.
Your influence then must be divine;
Since, Madam, it can thus refine
The dregs of Love, of Wit, of Wine.