Poetry
Thomas Oldham
LONDON: A. H. BAILEY AND CO., 83, CORNHILL; ADAM AND CHARLES
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BY THOMAS OLDHAM.
O! should I ever dare profane
With venal touch the hallow'd lyre,
Let me be banish'd from the Muses' train;
Ne'er let me feel their heart-ennobling fire!
Unworthy of a Poet's glorious name,
Let me be doom'd to everlasting shame!
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