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Poems, on sacred and other subjects

and songs, humorous and sentimental: By the late William Watt. Third edition of the songs only--with additional songs

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To Louisa B.

Louisa, veil that face so fair—
That face is Cupid's fatal snare,
Strange as the Gordian knot!
Wake not the glow of hopeless love,
Which only can despair promove,
And seal my hapless lot!