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Original poems on several subjects

In two volumes. By William Stevenson

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On the Same.

[The man whom Wedlock renders sib]

The man whom Wedlock renders sib
To woman, thus regains his rib,

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Which erewhile from his side was stole,
To envelope the female soul:
But O! what thousands, luckless born,
Will for a rib receive a thorn!