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Juvenile poems on various subjects

With the Prince of Parthia, a tragedy

Godfrey, Thomas (1736-1763)

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The next to her approach'd a rev'rent Dame,
In trophies great from Insects torn she came;
With stately step she trod the plain along,
And threw her treasure 'midst th' admiring throng,
Forward with joy each curious Mortal sprang,
This caught a gaudy wing, and that a pointed fang.