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EXTEMPORE. TO MRS. SHEPHERD, IN PAYMENT OF A SHEET OF PAPER.
Though Poets deal in black and white,
And often draw a Bill at sight,
And mark their Drafts on paper;
And though they're drawn upon a God,
What may to money'd Men seem odd,
They 're little more than vapour.
And often draw a Bill at sight,
And mark their Drafts on paper;
And though they're drawn upon a God,
What may to money'd Men seem odd,
They 're little more than vapour.
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Nay, should Apollo undersign,
And the Bill,—back'd by all the Nine,—
Gain credit in Parnass,
Good Men would spurn it at the Bank;
And Newland, thinking it but blank,
Protest it must not pass.
And the Bill,—back'd by all the Nine,—
Gain credit in Parnass,
Good Men would spurn it at the Bank;
And Newland, thinking it but blank,
Protest it must not pass.
Yet currency it sure may gain,
Not only where the Muses reign,
But on a richer spot;
When thus to Worth it would impart
The warmest wishes of the Heart
In the good Shepherd's cot.
Not only where the Muses reign,
But on a richer spot;
When thus to Worth it would impart
The warmest wishes of the Heart
In the good Shepherd's cot.
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