ODES.
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To Miss Margaret Pulteney, Daughter of Daniel Pulteney Esq; in the Nursery.
April 27, 1727.
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All caressing, none beguiling,
Bud of beauty, fairly blowing,
Every charm to nature owing, 4
This and that new thing admiring,
Much of this and that enquiring,
Knowledge by degrees attaining,
Day by day some vertue gaining, 8
Ten years hence, when I leave chiming,
Beardless poets, fondly rhyming,
(Fescu'd now, perhaps, in spelling)
On thy riper beauties dwelling, 12
Shall accuse each killing feature
Of the cruel, charming, creature,
Whom I knew complying, willing,
Tender, and averse to killing. 16
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