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Outshine's safe Sackville's new-created Star</p> | Outshine's safe Sackville's new-created Star</p> | ||
| − | I ought to tremble at sending you the | + | I ought to tremble at sending you the Productions of my Sleep when you criticize so forcibly the waking Ode of Mason – yr remark on the F<u>ount</u>ain & F<u>l</u>ame is perfectly just - in some Points you are misled by a blotted Copy I apprehend for <u>venal</u> is printed as it should be in my Copy <u>vernal</u> - & the other Line you mention stands thus |
<p align="center">To meet in yonder Sea <u>of</u> Œther blue –</p> | <p align="center">To meet in yonder Sea <u>of</u> Œther blue –</p> | ||
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for you as a Curiosity tho I have not Time to tell you the manner in which they were introduced - I suppose they formed the last part of the an elegiac Stanza but I cannot catch the least Trace of any verse before them tho I remember the Train of Thought – Here they are
The clotted Blood that shrouds thy shattered Frame
Outshine's safe Sackville's new-created Star
I ought to tremble at sending you the Productions of my Sleep when you criticize so forcibly the waking Ode of Mason – yr remark on the Fountain & Flame is perfectly just - in some Points you are misled by a blotted Copy I apprehend for venal is printed as it should be in my Copy vernal - & the other Line you mention stands thus
To meet in yonder Sea of Œther blue –
saucy as you are you have certainly improved his first Stanza – adio for I must now absolutely thrown down my hasty pen – Eliza begs me to express her Hopes of seeing you & to add her good wishes to those
of yr affectionate
Brother WH