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A Rural Poem
By ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.
“A Shepherd’s Boy … He Seeks No Better Name.”
The Third Edition
LONDON:
Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry and sold by T.C. Rickman, 7, Upper Mary-Le-Bone-Street; Ingram, and Dingle, Bury; Booth, Norwich; Hill, Edinburgh; Archer, and Dugdale, Dublin.
MDCCC
A sonnet has come to my hands, the production,—and nearly the first poetical Production,—of a very young Lady. I have not the Author’s consent to publish it: and there is no time to ask it. But I cannot omit adding such a flower to the Wreath of Glory of my Friend. I have therefore ventured to publish it without waiting permission; with one or two slight alterations.
C. L.
25 Aug. 1800.