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A wish was my father, dissappointment my Mother
A wish was my father, dissappointment my Mother
I came into this world like you, or another;
I came into this world like you, or another;
I'm gazed at with wonder, tho all I can boast
I'm gaz'd at with wonder, tho all I can boast
Is a natural [illegible] to stick to my post.
Is a natural firmness to stick to my post.
Would you know when excited the [illegible] of our kind
Would you know when existed the first of our kind
[illegible] the [Poets?], search [illegible]you never will find
Search the Poets, search Hist'ry you never will find
Yet I verily think, had the wife of old Adam
Yet I verily think, had the wife of old Adam
[Behaved?] as she ought, like a true honest Madam
Behav'd as she ought, like a true honest Madam
Time an [illegible] as Cain had [illegible [illegible] told
Time an antient as Cain had our origin told
And our names in antiquity long been [illegible]
And our names in antiquity long been enroll'd
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A wish was my father, dissappointment my Mother I came into this world like you, or another; I'm gaz'd at with wonder, tho all I can boast Is a natural firmness to stick to my post. Would you know when existed the first of our kind Search the Poets, search Hist'ry you never will find Yet I verily think, had the wife of old Adam Behav'd as she ought, like a true honest Madam Time an antient as Cain had our origin told And our names in antiquity long been enroll'd

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