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AN EXTEMPORARY ACROSTIC.

1 MY Muse, once more, thy aid I humbly claim;
2 Refuse not now to grace my rustic lays.
3 Johnston or Pope might well befit the theme
4 Or Grecian bards, who ever merit praise.
5 How dares my humble hand assume so high?
6 No common character inspires my song,
7 His growing fame long since has reach'd the sky:
8 All I can say but does his virtues wrong;
9 Let then my blund'ring pen in silence rest;
10 Lo, silent admiration paints them best.

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Title (in Source Edition): AN EXTEMPORARY ACROSTIC.
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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. [159].  (ESTC T126549) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.)

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