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Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
Fair Empress of the Poet's soul, / And Queen of Poetesses; / Clarinda, take this little boon, / This humble pair of glasses:
And fill them up with generous juice, / As generous as your mind; / And pledge them to the generous toast, / "The whole of human kind!"
"To those who love us! " second fill; / But not to those whom we love; / Lest we love those who love not us- / A third-"To thee and me, Love! "