ON A FAN (Mary) Matilda Betham Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T143264 Betham, Mary Matilda, 1776-1852. Elegies and Other Small Poems, by Matilda Betham. Ipswich Printed by W. Burrell, and sold by Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Jermyn and Forster, Ipswich 1797 p. [56].

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ON A FAN NOW I've painted these flowers , say what can I do , To render them worthy acceptance from you ? I know of no sybil , whose wonderful art Could to them superior virtues impart , Who , of magical influence wonders could tell , And , who over each blossom could mutter a spell . You only the humbler enchantments can prove , That arise from esteem , from respect , and from love : With such I assail you , and pow'rful the charm , When applied to a heart sympathetic and warm ; To a heart such as that , which , if right I divine , O C—ll—n—n ! dwells in that bosom of thine . Nov. 10 , 1795.