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Inscription to the Young Unmarried Lady, who purchases me
From Poetical Works, ed. Walter Scott (1810), vol. III
Sweet maid, is thy soft, snowy hand
Unplighted yet, and gaily free?
O may thy graces soon command
A power, that shall resemble me!
Since me a silken cage thou’lt find
For all thy future swains fond letters,
And may thy charms his wishes bind
In as indissoluble fetters!
And when, enamour’d, he shall yield
All power his freedom to regain,
With sense, and smiles, and virtue, gild
His viewless, but eternal chain!
LYDIA LETTER-CASE.
Codex Note
Source: The Poetical Works of Anna Seward, ed. Walter Scott (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1810), vol. III.
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