My old cousin; or, A peep into Cochin-China, by the author of Romantic facts

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A.K. Newman, 1819

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Page 47 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
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