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[Title]] To C. Lamb MS. Letter, Dec. 1794: Effusion xxii. To a Friend, &c. 1796: To Charles Lamb with an unfinished Poem 1844.

[[1-3]]

Thus far my sterile brain hath fram'd the song
Elaborate and swelling: but the heart
Not owns it. From thy spirit-breathing power

MS. Letter, Dec. 1794.

[[7]]

Not in MS. Letter, Dec. 1794.

Between [13] and 14

On her soft bosom I reposed my cares
And gain'd for every wound a healing tear.

MS. Letter, 1794.