To Emma Button

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Title:     To Emma Button
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

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EMMA, eldest of your name,
Meekly trusting in her God
Midst the red-hot plough-shares trod,
And unscorch'd preserved her fame.
By that test if _you_ were tried,
Ugly flames might be defied;
Though devouring fire's a glutton,
Through the trial you might go
"On the light fantastic toe,"
Nor for plough-shares care a BUTTON.

[The end]
Charles Lamb's poem: To Emma Button

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