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Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

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If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

Source: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Prologue, 1678.
-- Anne Bradstreet, (NA 1612?-1672), US poet; Her Verse, 1650, was considered the first significant literary work in Colonial America.


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