"Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last."
— William Cowper

January 1, 1970

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"On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk" (1798)

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"On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk" (1798)