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Poems on Several Occasions
By Mary Masters
Masters, Mary (ca. 1706-ca. 1759)
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Poems on Several Occasions
On a Gnat flying about a Candle.
Extempore.
Pretty
little Flutt'rer, why
Wouldst thou the shining Ruin try,
And in a gay Destruction dye!
Poems on Several Occasions