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HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF.ST.

1850
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ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1900.

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MARTIN CHARLES BURNEY, ESC

FORGIVE ME, BURNEY, if to thee these late
And hasty products of a critic pen,
Thyself no common judge of books and men,
In feeling of thy worth I dedicate.

My verse was offer'd to an older friend;
The humbler prose has fallen to thy share:
Nor could I miss the occasion to declare,
What, spoken in thy presence, must offend-
That, set aside some few caprices wild,
Those humorous clouds that flit o'er brightest days,
In all my threadings of this worldly maze,
(And I have watch'd thee almost from a child,)
Free from self-seeking, envy, low design,

1 have not found a whiter soul than thine.