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[DEAR BROTHER JEM]
Jem writes his verses with more speed
Than the printer's boy can set 'em;
Quite as fast as we can read,
And only not so fast as we forget 'em.
First published in Morning Post, Sept. 23, 1799. Included in An. Anth., 1800; Essays, &c., 1850, iii. 974. First collected P. and D. W., 1877, ii. 164.