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Familiar letters and poems on several occasions

By Mary Masters

Masters, Mary (ca. 1706-ca. 1759)

Familiar Letters, &c.

[To wear away Time as we can, we full oft]

[O wou'd the Free-born Maids together join]

[Fear not my Genius to unfold]

[Fear not, Maria, to display]

[But this is the Effect of present Grief]

[That some there are, who regularly move]

[Though I feel no youthful Fires]

[An active Mind, and Spirits gay]

On Good Friday.

Another Passage from Petrarch.

[A shining Treasure from the World conceal'd]

[Had, hitherto, escap'd those Darts]

[Ye lovely Nymphs of Britain's beauteous Race]

[For early will the treach'rous Tempters come]

[For though fond Hope our Wishes oft deceives]

[Pride, that imperious Fiend too well I know]

[A Love which greater Transports can impart]

POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

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[Pride, that imperious Fiend too well I know]

Pride, that imperious Fiend too well I know,
A Fiend which oft has been Maria's Foe.
The Bad are her's, but sometimes she'll intrude,
And stain a Soul that otherwise is good;
For, once admitted, she'll engross the Heart,
Swell it with Rage, and act a Tyrant's Part.