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TO THE REVEREND MOSES PORTER,
ON THE DAY HIS DAUGHTER WAS BORN.
Give, Porter! on receipt of this,Your Daughter of to-day a kiss;
And to your Prayers for her, subjoin
A small, but hearty Wish of mine!
—That with sound Sense, and Conscience clear,
She thro' a sinful World may steer;
And, after every peril past,
Be, just what now she is, at last,—
One of the few, in all the throng,
Who have not liv'd a Day too long!
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