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<p align="center"> sheet 2</p> | <p align="center"> sheet 2</p> | ||
Besides, the happy manner in which <strike>they</strike> \you/ touch on your main subject in this verse | Besides, the happy manner in which <strike>they</strike> \you/ touch on your main subject in this verse | ||
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sheet 2
Besides, the happy manner in which they \you/ touch on your main subject in this verse
‘not early like fair Laura’ spirit fly’
pleads strongly for this stanza – but
‘The Boast & blessing of thy native Isle’
is my dear sister, too Hyperbolical – as to your Eagle-stanza, poetical as it is, (being as Heaven knows pure Fiction) I apprehend it may expose you to much raillery, & some Wag, who happens to know what a crazy-headed mortal you have raised so high, will perhaps parody \improve/ yr two concluding Lines in this manner
Then seek his radiant \wonted/ Track in radiant noon
Rise from thy blooming Groves, & Vanish in the moon
When you know me a little better, you will perceive the excellence of this correction.
In the mean Time let me speak on the safer subject, of yr Praise – Ansty has never