_____Fair in thy form, still fairer in thy mind
_____With beauty wisdom sense with sweetness join'd
_____Great without pride, & lovely without Art
_____Your looks good nature words good sense impart
_____Thus formed to charm Oh deign to hear my song
_____Whose best whose sweetest strains to you belong.

_____Let others toil amidst the lofty air
_____By fancy led through every cloud above
_____Let empty Follies build her castles there
_____My thoughts are settled on the friend I love.
_____Oh friend sincere of soul divinely great
_____Shedest thou for me a wretch the sorrowed tear
_____What thanks can I in this unhappy state
_____Return to you but Gratitude sincere
_____T'is friendship pure that now demand my lays
_____A theme sincere that Aid my feeble song
_____Raised by that theme I do not fear to praise
_____Since your the subject where due praise belong
_____Ah dearest girl in whom the gods have join'd
_____The real blessings, which themselves approve
_____Can mortals frown at such an heavenly mind
_____When Gods propitious shine on you they love
_____Far from the seat of pleasure now I roam
_____The pleasing landscape now no more I see
_____Yet absence ne'er shall take my thoughts from home
_____Nor time efface my due regards for thee.

_____(3) Benjamin Tallmadge_____

Benjamin Tallmadge, one year older than Nathan
Hale, was Hale's classmate and one of his cor-

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