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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton

with an essay on the Rowley poems by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and a memoir by Edward Bell

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XIX.

Sprite of Elle
speaks.
At once, ye sprites, forsake the swollen flood,
Enjoy a sight with me, a sight full fine;
Well have I vended mine for Danish blood,
Since this great structure greets my wondering eyne.
Ye that have built upon the Redcliff side,
Turn there your eyne, and see your works outvied!