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Dear Bard ! | Dear Bard ! | ||
Accept our Ack<u>nowledgmen</u>t & t<u>han</u>ks for your kind present of Birds & Venison, which you should in right have had <strike>illeg</strike> [overwritten] by now but Indolence withheld my Pen, Flaxman is in a Rage at the Delay – – not so Titania ! She knows and feels, "a grateful Mind by Giving, owes not, but still pays, at once indebted & discharg'd" — I have at your request tried my poor influence (as Fairy Queen) over the rainy Regions, but Oh ! I fear Queen Juno's wrath has shewn itself more powerful than my good wishes in your behalf, and <u>Eolus</u> has obey'd her high behest – If I had had a <u>beauteous</u> <u>Anna</u> to present him with, perhaps not even Juno's power nor the proffer'd charms of a Deiopea would have prevail'd, but alas ! — – nothing | Accept our Ack<u>nowledgmen</u>t & t<u>han</u>ks for your kind present of Birds & Venison, which you should in right have had <strike>illeg</strike> [overwritten] by now but Indolence withheld my Pen, Flaxman is in a Rage at the Delay – – not so Titania ! She knows and feels, "a grateful Mind by Giving, owes not, but still pays, at once indebted & discharg'd" — I have at your request tried my poor influence (as Fairy Queen) over the rainy Regions, but Oh ! I fear Queen Juno's wrath has shewn itself more powerful than my good wishes in your behalf, and <u>Eolus</u> has obey'd her high behest – If I had had a <u>beauteous</u> <u>Anna</u> to present him with, perhaps not even Juno's power nor the proffer'd charms of a Deiopea would have prevail'd, but alas ! — – nothing | ||
Revision as of Feb 25, 2020, 11:44:57 AM
September 30th—1797
Dear Bard !
Accept our Acknowledgment & thanks for your kind present of Birds & Venison, which you should in right have had illeg [overwritten] by now but Indolence withheld my Pen, Flaxman is in a Rage at the Delay – – not so Titania ! She knows and feels, "a grateful Mind by Giving, owes not, but still pays, at once indebted & discharg'd" — I have at your request tried my poor influence (as Fairy Queen) over the rainy Regions, but Oh ! I fear Queen Juno's wrath has shewn itself more powerful than my good wishes in your behalf, and Eolus has obey'd her high behest – If I had had a beauteous Anna to present him with, perhaps not even Juno's power nor the proffer'd charms of a Deiopea would have prevail'd, but alas ! — – nothing