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AN ACROSTIC UPON A YOUNG WOMAN, WRITTEN BY HER LOVER.

1 HAIL sweetest charmer of the rural plain,
2 Accept the tribute of a humble swain;
3 Nor frown, tho' he presumpt'ous would essay;
4 No muse your matchless beauties can display.
5 All that is feign'd of the fair Cyprian queen.
6 Here in this lovely damsel may be seen.
7 In her fair form is ev'ry grace combin'd;
8 Virtue and modesty adorn her mind.
9 If Milton's eloquence did grace my lays,
10 Sure it would fail, and speak but half her praise.
11 O Cupid fix an arrow in her breast!
12 No more I'd wish, were I of her possess'd.

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Title (in Source Edition): AN ACROSTIC UPON A YOUNG WOMAN, WRITTEN BY HER LOVER.
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Little, Janet, 1759-1813. The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid. Air: Printed by John & Peter Wilson, 1792, p. [158].  (ESTC T126549) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.)

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