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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