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A LETTER TO ELIZA
If any other son of Adam
Owns my whole name, respected Madam,
Except one boy, who's now in college,
It's quite beyond my sphere of knowledge.
A thousand pounds against a guinea
I never looked on Old Virginny
The whole Dominion to an acre
I never knew your “Dr Baker,”—
Whoso describes my hair as sable
Has told a—horizontal fable;
—Who is this saucy youth that tries a
Base trick upon my friend Eliza?
Owns my whole name, respected Madam,
Except one boy, who's now in college,
It's quite beyond my sphere of knowledge.
A thousand pounds against a guinea
I never looked on Old Virginny
The whole Dominion to an acre
I never knew your “Dr Baker,”—
Whoso describes my hair as sable
Has told a—horizontal fable;
—Who is this saucy youth that tries a
Base trick upon my friend Eliza?
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