MRS. BARBAULD.

The decease of this literary and excellent lady in the spring of 1825,

occasioned a friend to the _Every-Day Book_ to transmit the following

fugitive poem for insertion. It is not collected in any of the works

published by Mrs. Barbauld during her lifetime; this, and the rectitude

of spirit in the production itself, may justify its being recorded

within these pages.

_To her honoured Friends_

of the families of

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