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    Vignettes in Verse
    Vignettes in Verse
    Vignettes in Verse
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    Vignettes in Verse

    By Matilda Betham

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Vignettes in Verse - Matilda Betham

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Vignettes in Verse, by Matilda Betham

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: Vignettes in Verse

      Author: Matilda Betham

      Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11194]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VIGNETTES IN VERSE ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Garcia and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team.

      Vignettes:

      IN VERSE.

      BY MATILDA BETHAM.

      1818.

      THESE VERSES ARE INSCRIBED

      TO

      LADY BETHAM,

      AS A TRIBUTE OF SINCERE RESPECT

      FOR HER

      AMIABLE QUALITIES.

      ADVERTISEMENT.

      As far as the seventy-fourth page, these Poems have been printed about two years; during which many things happened likely to prevent their ever appearing. The time, however, is now come, and I have to-day found the remainder, up to where the lines end with

      Its unpolluted birthright.

      On reading the whole over, they struck me with much surprise, as they appear in a singular manner prophetic. I wrote them with a general, and somewhat undefined view; and they now take the aspect of speaking on what has since happened to myself—a long seclusion, during which I was bereft of the common means of study, having given rise to one that has turned out far more important than I at first imagined, and which I have continued since, to the exclusion of every other pursuit.

      Stonkam, May 10th, 1818.

      Vignettes.

      I.

      II.

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