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METRICAL LETTER TO MISS N———.
My very dear friend,
In your absence I send a few lines to remind you of those left behind you. I hear that to Derry you journeyed quite merry, and your brother to greet you had hastened to meet you; to whom, by the way, I my compliments pay, with his friend and your own, now no longer unknown, for ere this, I dare say, they have stolen you away from the town and its noise, to the country's sweet joys. Apropos to your city; my heart throbbed with pity, as I yesterday read, in the history by Reid, of the right noble stand of the patriot band by whom in the siege London-derry was manned. Such sufferings and zeal to our feelings appeal,
