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

     [5 flourishes]

Mark