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PGCJ.781.002
24 Mar 1781:11,12,13,21 (899)
The following was printed in a pamphlet in England, for the
benefit of the American prisoners, confined there . . .
A POETICAL EPISTLE to his excellency George Washington,
Esquire: Commander in Chief of the armies of the United
States of America. From an inhabitant of the state of
Maryland. . .
--Honest praise
Oft nobly sways
Ingenuous youth:
But from the coward and the lying mouth
. . . [8 more lines, signed] Akenside's Ode.
While many a servile miss her succour leads
To flatter tyrants, or a tyrant's friends:
While thousands, slaughter'd at ambition's shrine,
Are made a plea to court the tuneful sins:
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