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TO MRS A. H.,
ON SEEING HER AT A CONCERT.
This little occasional canzonet of Crawford's is a fair specimen
of his amatory verses, and a characteristic production. A general
admirer of the fair, he sees a young lady at a concert, deems her
the prettiest creature extant, and immediately throws off two
stanzas in her praise, to the appropriate tune of The Bonniest
Lass in a' the World. It appears that the lady in question was
Miss Anne Hamilton (as we should now entitle her), a relative of
William Hamilton of Bangour, and subsequently married to
' Professor M , in the university of Edinburgh.'
The modern reader, who only reads the verses, will perhaps
set little store by them ; but if he be so fortunate as hear them
well sung to their proper melody, he will probably own that they
possess a certain charm.
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Look where my dear Ha - mil - la smiles, Ha-
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arts and wiles The Loves and Gra - ces arm her !
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A blush dwells glow - ing on her cheeks, Fair