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TEA,

A POEМ.

Earnestly rcommended to the attention of all maidens of certain age.

Old time, my dear girls, is a knave who in truth
From the fairest of beauties will pélfer their youth;
Who by constant attention and wily deceit,
For ever is coaxing some grace to retreat;
And, like crafty seducer, with subtle approach,