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NM.767.054
21 Dec 1767:33 (485)
Please to insert the following lines, composed by a Negro
girl (belonging to one Mr. Wheatley of Boston) on the
following occasion, viz. Messrs. Hussey and Coffin, as
undermentioned, belonging to Nantucket, being bound from
thence to Boston narrowly escaped being cast away on Cape
Cod, in one of the late storms; upon their arrival, being at
Mr. Wheatley's, and, while at dinner, told of their narrow
escape, the Negro girl at the same time tending table, heard
the relation, from which she composed the following verses.
ON MESSRS. HUSSEY AND COFFIN.
Did fear and danger so perplex your mind,
As made you fearful of the whistling wind?
Was it not boreas knit his angry brow
Against you? or did consideration bow?
. . . [20 lines, signed] Phyllis Wheatley.
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