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WRITTEN EXTEMPORE
ON RECEIVING A LOCKET.
Precious gift! O may'st thou rest,Dear associate of my breast!
Happy shall I, Clara, be,
Thus possessing part of thee!
While affection fond as fair,
Forms a chain of every hair,
A chain, which round the willing mind,
Sensibility shall bind.
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