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Peter Faultless to his brother Simon

tales of night, in rhyme, and other poems. By the author of Night [i.e. Ebenezer Elliott]

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XV.

He ended, sneering at the poet,
Who, although stung, seem'd not to know it:
She rose not from her Mathew's side,
But met his warm kiss, and complied.