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unfortunate young woman comes thither; and courting the same death as had robbed her of her lover, she awaits its violence, and is at length overwhelmed by the waves.
Verse 8. Line 4.
'And fruitless call on him— "who cannot hear."
'I fruitless mourn to him who cannot hear,
'And weep the more because I weep in vain.'
Gray's exquisite Sonnet;
in reading which it is impossible not to regret that he wrote only one.
This little poem was written almost extempore on occasion of a conversation where many pleasant things were said on the subject of flattery; and some French gentlemen who were of the party enquired for a synonym in English to the French word fleurette.
