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TO A COQUETTE.

FROM HORACE.

And, in the sunlight of thy grace,

In sooth but little doth he know

If breeze or hurricane shall blow!

Ah, woe to them by thee ensnared!

But they thy siren face who flee,

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Like sailors that escape the sea,

From shipwreck and destruction spared,

Shall raise a votive stone at last,

A monument of dangers past.

C. F. L.

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