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TO WHOM SHOULD A YOUNG, AND TIMID

COMPETITOR FOR PUBLIC REPUTATION,

DEDICATE HIS ATTEMPTS,

BUT TO

A BRITISH PUBLIC?

TO THAT PUBLIC, WHO HAVE ALWAYS

BEEN THE FOSTERERS OF INDUSTRY, OR GENIUS,

WHO HAVE ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD FROM

THE IMPERFECTIONS OF YOUTH,

TO THE

FRUITS OF MATURITY.

IT IS TO THAT GENEROUS PUBLIC,

THAT HE NOW COMMITS HIS HOPES AND HIS FEARS.

IT IS TO THAT GENEROUS PUBLIC,

THAT HE NOW OFFERS HIS

JUVENILE EFFORTS,

FOR THEIR APPLAUSE!

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Page 22, line 389, for is, read bath —— 28, —— 391, for dying, read mortal —— 31, —— 90, for t’, read to —— 36, —— 206, for “Some mouths ago this arm had sav’d his life” read “Some moons have past since Ismael sav’d his life” Page 64, line 5, for whither, read whether

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Written at Thirteen Years Old.

To thee, O Scott, I tune my humble lyre,

Who first inflam’d me with a Poet’s fire.

Well may fair Scotland glory in the fame,

That waits thy verse, and crowns thy radiant name: