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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton

with an essay on the Rowley poems by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and a memoir by Edward Bell

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Celmonde.
Before yon ruddy sun hath driv'n his wain
Through half his journey, dight in robes of gold,
Me, hapless me, he will a wretch behold,
Myself, and all that's mine, bound in mischance's chain.