Versos English Charles Lamb To M[Ary] L[Ocke]

English poem

To M[Ary] L[Ocke]

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Must I write with pen unwilling And describe those graces killing Rightly, which I never saw? Yes--it is the Album's law.

Let me then Invention strain On your excelling charms to feign-- Cold is Fiction? I believe it Kindly, as I did receive it, Even as J.F.'s tongue did weave it.