University of Virginia Library

TO MISS SAWBRIDGE.

PRESENTED WITH EMMA CORBETT, FROM THE AUTHOR.

Sweet Anna! In these mournful pages see,
All that the Muse can wish may meet in thee;
Be thou, like Emma, fam'd for tender truth,
Like Henry constant be thy favour'd youth;
Yet may thy Henry in thy Fathers cause,
Stand forth the champion of insulted laws;
Like patriot Edwards' be thy Hero's heart,
And should he fall, be thine Louisa's part;
Like Raymond, should'st thou e'er a lover find,
To hapless passion be like Emma kind;
Pity the fondness sighs alone reveal,
And gently soothe the wounds thou can'st not heal,
Obey, like Emma, all that faith requires,
And dare, like her, avow what Heav'n inspires;
But, ah may here the wish'd resemblance end,
And on thy fortunes happier fates attend,
Never sweet Anna, never mayst thou prove,
Her bleeding trials of unshaken love!