To a young Lady who was going to India. ‘Christian Carstairs’ 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. T76883 Carstairs, Christian. Original Poems. By a Lady, Dedicated to Miss Ann Henderson. A Tribute to Gratitude and Friendships. Edinburgh Andrew Shortrede 1786 p. 66.

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To a young Lady who was going to India . SHALL we once more then meet on Albion's coast , Before , my dear , in India you're a toast ? There gilded pleasures wait your jet-black eyes , And Asian youths for Scots Maria dies . Yes ! they may die — and die — and die again , But ye's return and wed a Scottish swain , Or wed him there .