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The poetical wanderer

containing, dissertations On the early poetry of Greece, On tragic poetry, and on the power Of noble actions on the mind. To which are added, several poems

Linn, John Blair (1777-1804)

Lines written on seeing the Representation of a City in Ruins.

The Maid of the Cot:

Ode to Superstition:

Hope:

The Author's Elegy over the remains of his Pen.

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You was but poor, a lowly shepherd swain,
And kept a little stock upon the plain,
When I of noble birth beheld your charms,
And first receiv'd you to my loving arms;
Tho' now great Priam's son and prince of Troy,
You then was only a mien shepherd boy;
Nor in that rank, did you I scorn to wed,
But took a youthful stranger to my bed.