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To Miss M--- C---.
ON HER APPROACHING WEDDING DAY.
The day is near, the happy morn,
That renders you a bride;
May you the nuptial state adorn,
As well as that you've try'd.
That renders you a bride;
May you the nuptial state adorn,
As well as that you've try'd.
When beauty's charms shall fade away,
Blasted by hoary age;
Your virtues never will decay,
Not when life quits the stage.
Blasted by hoary age;
Your virtues never will decay,
Not when life quits the stage.
Like to the skilful mariner,
Who wafts his bark to shore,
Though stormy tempests rage and blow,
Though foamy billows roar.
Who wafts his bark to shore,
Though stormy tempests rage and blow,
Though foamy billows roar.
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E'en so, if Prudence lead the way,
Be you by storms distrest;
Make but the chiefest Good your stay,
And you'll be ever blest.
Be you by storms distrest;
Make but the chiefest Good your stay,
And you'll be ever blest.
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