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Title: Zophiel
A Poem

Author: Maria Gowen Brooks

Release Date: July 2, 2006 [EBook #18739]

Language: English

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ZOPHIEL,

A Poem,

By Mrs. Brooks.

------------Forse la sorte
F. stanca di me tormentar--_Metastasio._

Boston:

Published by Richardson & Lord.

* * *

J. H. A. Frost, Printer.

1825.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:
District Clerk's Office.

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the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of
America, _Richardson & Lord,_ of the said District, have deposited in
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Zophiel, a Poem, by Mrs. Brooks.
----------Forse la sorte
E stanca di me tormentar.--_Metastasio._

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PREFACE.

Wishing to make a continued effort, in an art which, though almost
in secret, has been adored and assiduously cultivated from earliest
infancy, it was my intention to have chosen some incident from Pagan
history, as the foundation of my contemplated poem. But, lookin