7. G. Hetelur

S. Chad

Wolvercote

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Oxford

March 16-1918

"When that the Poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept."

Shakespeare.

"A time there was, ere England's griefs began,
"When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man."

Goldsmith,

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22 NOV 947

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HIS GRACE

THE DUKE OF BEDFORD,

PRESIDENT;

THE RIGHT HONORABLE

THE EARL OF EGREMONT;---THE LORDS
SOMERVILLE AND CARRINGTON,
VICE-PRESIDENTS;

AND OTHERS, MEMBERS OF THE BATH AND
WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY,

FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND COMMERCE;

AND ALL OTHERS,

WHO PURSUE, WITH THE SAME LAUDABLE ZEAL AND BENEVOLENCE, SUCH GRAND AND NATIONAL PURSUITS ;--

The following Poem,

A FEEBLE ATTEMPT

TO INFUSE AND DISSEMINATE SENTIMENTS AND OPINIONS
CONDUCIVE TO THE WELFARE AND PROSPERITY
OF OUR NATIVE COUNTRY,

AND INCITIVE

TO THE ADOPTION OF PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENTS,

IS,

WITH PECULIAR PROPRIETY,

AND WITH ALL DUE DEFERENCE AND ESTEEM,

MOST RESPECTFULLY AND HUMBLY

INSCRIBED,

BY THE AUTHOR.

"Quod si deficiunt vires, audacia certe,
"Laus erit in magnis et voluisse sat est."

Propertius.