Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry
sed epistle to rraham, esq., of fintry
5th october 1791.
te crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg,
about to beg a pass for leave to beg;
dull, listless, teas'd, dejected, and deprest
(nature is adverse to a cripple's rest);
will generous graham list to his poet's wail?
(it soothes poor misery, hearkening to her tale)
and hear him curse the light he first survey'd,
and doubly curse the luckless rhyming trade?
thou, nature! partial nature, i arraign;
of thy caprice maternal i pin;
the lion and the bull thy care have found,
one shakes the fo
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