Anne's Eye is liken'd to the Sun,

From it such Beams of Beauty fall;

And this can be denied by none,

For like the Sun, it shines on All.

Then do not admiration smother,

Or say these glances don't become her;

To you, or I, or any other

Her Sun, displays perpetual Summer 2 .

January 14, 1807.

Footnote 1: ÝMiss Anne Houson. From an autograph MS. at Newstead, now for the first time printed.

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Footnote 2: Ý Compare, for the same simile, the lines "To Edward Noel Long, Esq.", p. 187, ante.

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