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The vile Betrayer of his Friend,<br />

The Seller of his God for Gold,<br />

The False, the Traitor, the Forsworn,<br />

Bewail the Day that they were born!<br />

[7] Enjoy the Peace they cannot find,<br />

No more than they can take away.<br />

Thy Birthday still with even mind 107<br />

View calmly, as thy Dying Day;<br />

That Second Birthday, happier far,<br />

Which clears thee at the last great Bar!<br />

[untitled] 108<br />

Poor Dorothy, confined for Life<br />

Has past her melancholy Time,<br />

If not Divorc’d, a Widow’d Wife,<br />

Her state as Doubtful as her Crime.<br />

Now Death have her Releasement sign’d<br />

None her Departure must report<br />

Unless they would expect to find<br />

The Fury of the Angry Court.<br />

Can Ages an Example give<br />

Of Tyranny that went so high!<br />

They scare would suffer her to Live,<br />

And yet prohibit her to Die!<br />

107 Poems (1862): “Thy happy birth with equal mind.”<br />

108 Not in Poems (1862), so not surviving in manuscript, but likely also by Samuel Jr.<br />

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