Versos English Matilda Betham To ---- WITH ARTHUR and ALBINA

English poem

To ---- WITH ARTHUR and ALBINA

by (1836–1919)

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Ah! if your eye should e'er these lines survey, Dismiss from thence its penetrating ray: Let Criticism then her distance keep, And dreaded Justice then be lull'd to sleep; For, let whatever sentence be their due, I feel I cannot censure bear from you.