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POEMS,

BY HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.


MDCCLXXXVI.



TO HER MAJESTY.


MADAM,

I am too sensible of the distinguished honour conferred upon me, in your
Majesty's gracious protection of these Poems, to abuse it by adopting
the common strain of dedication.

That praise corresponds best to your Majesty's generous feelings, which
is poured without restraint from the heart, and is repeated where you
cannot hear.

I suppress therefore, in delicacy to those feelings, the warmth of my
own, and subscribe myself,

MADAM,

With profound respect,

Your MAJESTY'S

Devoted servant,

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS.



PREFACE.

The apprehension which it becomes me to feel, in submitting these Poems
to the