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Minor Poems, including Napoleon

By Bernard Barton. Second Edition, with Additions

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65

TO ELIZA.

I would not, love! prefix a name like thine
To verse that dwelt on ills which flow from strife;
That name is one Affection would entwine
Among those lovelier things that sweeten life.
But these, with feelings of fraternal love,
And with an author's mingled hopes and fears,
These I to thee would offer—May they prove
Dear to thy heart for “days of other years!”
B. B.