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1752–1832

TO MY BOOK

Philip Morin Freneau

Unhappy Volume!— doom'd by fate To meet with unrelenting hate From those who can their venom spit, Yet condescend to steal your wit:

While Shylock with malicious spirit, Allows you not a grain of merit, While he an idle pomp assumes, Let him return his borrowed plumes,

And you will find the insect creeping, With not a feather worth the keeping.

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