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IF YOU HAVE SEEN by THOMAS MOORE

First Line: GOOD READER, IF YOU E'ER HAVE SEEN
Last Line: GOD BLESS ME! WHAT A DEAL YOU'VE SEEN!
GOOD reader, if you e'er have seen,
When Phoebus hastens to his pillow,
The mermaids with their tresses green
Dancing upon the western billow;
If you have seen at twilight dim,
When the lone spirit's vesper hymn
Floats wild along the winding shore,
The fairy train their ringlets weave
Glancing along the spangled green;
I you have seen all this, and more --
God bless me! what a deal you've seen!


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