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O thou my beauteous ever tender Friend	A
Thou on whom all my worldly Joys depend	A
Accept these Numbers and with Pleasure hear	B
Unstudy'd Truth which few alas can bear	C
While conscious Virtue takes the Muse's Part	D
Glows on thy Cheek and warms thy gen'rous Heart	D
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Let Birth day Suits be thoughtless Celias Cire	C
And Rows of Di'monds recommend the Fair	C
While gazing Crouds around the Pageant press	E
Charm'd with her Pride and Luxury of Dress	E
Far other Joys thy just Ambition move	F
To cherish and reward a Husband's Love	G
To slight vain Titles in Retreat to shine	H
Shun public Praise and call a Poet thine	H
And know ye Fair a Poet can supply	I
What Wealth and Pow'r and Equipage deny	I
When the vain Bus'ness of your Lives is o'er	C
And the Glass frightens whom it charm'd before	C
When not a Trace remains of what you were	C
And not a Compliment salutes your Ear	C
Without one Virtue to redeem Respect	J
Without one Beauty to sorbid Neglect	J
With Tears unpity'd you may then lament	K
The gloomy Setting of a Life mis spent	K
Nor Delia's Choice with witty Malice blame	L
Who gave up Show for Happiness and Fame	L
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O If the Muse not uninspir'd divine	H
Thy bright Example shall for ever shine	H
Teach the wise Virgin where to fix her Choice	M
And weigh no Marriage by the common Voice	M
To yield with Dignity reject with Grace	N
Nor tire the Lover with a tedious Chace	N
With Ease to conquer and with Ease retain	O
Brighten Prosperity or soften Pain	O
Know Woman's Glory and her proper End	A
Live to her Husband Family and Friend	A
Thro' varying Life her various Virtues prove	F
Honour her Portion here and Bliss above	G
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Say What Persuasion or what Arts of mine	H
Could gain a Passage to a Soul like thine	H
Where Female Softness Strength of Reason meet	P
A piercing Judgment and a Wit discrect	P
Where ev'ry Passion ev'ry Duty knows	Q
Its proper Bounds and not unlicens'd flows	Q
Say for thou know'st my ever ablest Guide	P
One doubtful Act remains unjustify'd	P
On Me on Me thy choicest Favours fell	R
Could You so err or I deserve so well	R
Instruct me thou the happy Art to steer	C
And still with Modesty thy Conduct clear	C
So in thy Praises may the World agree	C
Nor load with Vanity the Muse and Me	C
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With Song still usher'd shall the Morn arise	S
That shew'd thee first all charming to my Eyes	S
I gaz'd with Rapture yet chastiz'd with Awe	T
So the First Man descending Angels saw	U
Speaking or silent O secure to charm	V
To win with Wisdom or with Beauty warm	W
The Graces unobserv'd with easy Care	C
Form thy soft Accents and compose thy Air	C
I saw and heard nor heard nor saw unmov'd	P
Unknowing or I durst not know I lov'd	P
What thence I suffer'd let high Heav'n declare	C
Pitying my Grief propitious to my Pray'r	C
Heav'n try'd my Passion and pronounc'd it true	C
Hence I embolden'd and hence softer You	C
Yet oft with held and falt'ring oft with Pain	O
My Tongue half utters what my Eyes explain	O
Nor prone to flatter nor to Virtue blind	P
Not void of Knowledge and to learn inclin'd	P
Nor sprung from noble nor ungen'rous Blood	P
Boasting a Father honest wise and good	P
Such long observ'd and by long Converse shown	X
My Temper Manners and my Failings known	X
You trust my Vows and pity Love sincere	C
Haste to relieve and smile away my Fear	C
Give all you can and all the rest forsake	Y
The noblest Sacrifice that Love could make	Y
Of what Avail the Use of Wealth to Thee	C
Or what the Blessing if unshar'd with Me	C
O doubly honour'd by the grateful Mind	P
For what you bring and what you leave behind	P
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Is there a Man in Science not unread	P
In simple Neatness elegantly bred	P
Of what or Health or Nature asks possess'd	P
Receiv'd by all and by his Friends caress'd	P
False and insidious can the Fair pursue	C
And look on Beauty with a Miser's View	C
Taught by the Muse such abject Souls to hate	P
And hope sweet Converse from the Marriage State	P
I place my Triumphs in a matchless Wife	Z
Nor seek superfluous Vanities of Life	Z
Thus unobnoxious to Detraction's Aim	L
Nor base Suspicion can attaint my Fame	L
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Degen'rate Thought Let sland'rous Tongues assail	A2
Spread all their Poison all their Rage prevail	A2
So gracious Heav'n restore thee to enjoy	B2
What Love could leave but Wisdom could employ	B2
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Mean while my Delia manifests her Worth	C2
The Loss of Riches calls her Prudence forth	D2
Behold her now with Dignity descend	P
And low but necessary Cares attend	P
Chearful what Fortune not allows resign	H
And harder still her Charities confine	H
But Heav'n in secret sees the kind Intent	P
Each Act of Pity or of Bounty meant	P
Heav'n sees in secret but in open Day	P
Will crown thy Merit and thy Praise display	P
Tho' small thy Store not Millions could suffice	E2
To furnish all thy lib'ral Thought supplies	S
How oft thy lov'd Sapphira melts thy Breast	P
Obscur'd her Worth her Genius half depress'd	P
How oft thy Fancy helps Old Age along	F2
Or hears the Widow's and the Orphau's Song	F2
Now visionary Temples rise around	P
And half thy Empire GEORGE is sacred Ground	P
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From Thee my Delia from thy watchful Care	C
My Little lasts my Little Friends can share	C
Nor Debts distract nor Usuries devour	C
Poor if I am within my Fortune poor	C
Smile on my Fair tho' cautious void of Fear	C
Wise to shun Sorrows or prepar'd to bear	C
Who copies Thee shall never fail to find	P
'Midst Clouds and Storms the Sun shine of the Mind	P
For Piety whatever Ill impends	S
Omniscience guides Omnipotence defends	S
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Bless'd in Retirement Competence and Love	G
Below all Envy and all Vice above	G
Crown'd with Content I only burn to show	G2
Hopeless to recompense how much I owe	G2
O born with Genius and with Learning fill'd	P
In ev'ry Rule of happy Writings skill'd	P
Whom Beauties strike false Ornaments offend	P
Who weigh with Care each Author's Scope and End	P
Know why Pope slackens or augments his Fire	C
And oft where others damn the most admire	C
So shallow Wits with bolder Folly blame	L
From Parts the faultless Universal Frame	L
But Newton's Genius could the Whole explore	C
See All was good and Wisdom's Hand adore	C
This Verse you know me free from faulty Pride	P
Or kindly authorize or kindly hide	P
Approve and Fame shall sanctify my Lays	S
Suppress yet Love my grateful Labour pays	S

Mary Barber

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