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5th October 1791.
Late crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, / About to beg a pass for leave to beg; / Dull, listless, teas'd, dejected, and deprest / (Nature is adverse to a cripple's rest); / Will generous Graham list to his Poet's wail? / (It soothes poor Misery, hearkening to her tale) / And hear him curse the light he first survey'd, / And doubly curse the luckless rhyming trade?