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AIRS OF PALESTINE;

A POEM:

BY JOHN PIERPONT, ESQ.

I love to breathe, when Gilead sheds her balm;

I love to walk on Jordan's tanks of palm;
I love to wet my foot in Hermon's dews;

I love the promptings of Isaiah's muse:

In Carmel's holy grots Pll court repose,

And deck my mossy couch with Sharon's deathless rose.

BALTIMORE:

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.

B. Edes, printer.

1816.

District of Maryland, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirteenth day of November, in the forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Pierpont, Esquire, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"Airs of Palestine, a Poem, by John Pierpont, Esquire.

"I love to breathe, when Gilead sheds her balm;

"I love to walk on Jordan's banks of palm;
"I love to wet my foot in Hermon's dews;
"I love the promptings of Isaiah's muse:
"In Carmel's holy grots I'll court repose,

"And deck my mossy couch with Sharon's deathless rose.'
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In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learnings by secting the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and also to the act, entitled "an act, supplementary to an act, entitled an act, for the Encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts antibooks, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,” and extending the benefits thereof, to the arts of designug engraving and etching historical and other prints. PHILIP MOORE, Clerk of the District of Maryland.

TENOX LIBRARY
NEW YORK

E'en in a Bishop, I can spy desert;

Secker is decent; Rundel has a heart;
Manners and candour are to Benson given;
To Berkley, every virtue under Heaven......POPE.

To a reverend gentleman, to whom may be attributed all that Pope has here said, both of Benson and Berkley, I intended to dedicate my poem. With that view, the following remarks were written. From motives which do credit to his honesty and prudence as a Divine, and in a manner honourable to his sincerity as a gentleman, he declined receiving what I intended as a compliment to his talents and virtues. But "what I have written, I have written;" and if it must go, unprotected by the patronage of a name, let it go, and stand upon its own merits, or fall through its own weakness.

THE AUTHOR.

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