The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke ... In Four Volumes Octavo. Revised and corrected by the Original Manuscript With a Portrait of the Author, and His Life By Miss Brooke. The Third Edition |
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TO Mr. B---
ON Advertising his “Treatise on the Interests of Ireland.”
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Say, B---, what dæmon has possess'dA brain, that better should discern,
Than thus to chuse a theme, confess'd
No creature's study, or concern?
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Hadst thou but writ of Mat the Miller,Or frolicks of the Fairy-tribe,
Or, even, of John the Giant Killer;
There's not a soul but would subscribe.
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But, here, though from a Seraph's wingThy manna-dropping quill were shed;
Morpheus his leaden mace shall bring,
Or ere the second page be read.
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