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"Written for My Son, and Spoken by Him at His First Putting on Breeches [from Poems on Several Occasions]"
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Date: [1731?] 1734
"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)