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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 Excerpt: ...to rise, Or, rous'd by fancy, meets my waking eyes. If bus'ness calls, or crowded courts invite, Th' unblemish'd statesman seems to strike my sight; If pensive to the rural shades I rove, His shape o'ertakes me in the lonely grove: Twas there of just and good he reason'd strong, Clear'd some great truths, or rais'd some serious song; There patient show'd us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend sincere; There taught us how to live; and (O! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. Thou hill, whose brow the antique structure grace, Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race, Why, once so lov'd, whene'er thy bow'r appears, O'er my dim eye-balls glance the sudden tears! How sweet were once thy prospects fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks and unpolluted air! How sweet the glooms beneath thy aged trees, Thy noon-tide shadow, and thy ev'ning breeze! His image thy forsaken bow'rs restore; Thy walks and airy prospects are no more; No more the summer in thy gloom's allay'd, Thy ev'ning breezes, and thy noon-day shade. From other ills, however fortune frown'd, Some refuge in the Muse's art I found; Reluctant now I touch the trembling string, Bereft of him who taught me how to sing; And these sad accents, murmur'd o'er his urn, Betray that absence they attempt to mourn, O! must I then (now fresh my bosom bleeds, And Craggs in death to Addison succeeds) The verse, begun to one lost friend, prolong, And weep a second in th' unfinish'd song! These words divine, which, on his death-bed laid, To thee, O Craggs, th' expiring sage convey'd, Great, but ill-omen'd monument of fame, Nor he surviv'd to give, nor thou to claim. Swift after him thy social spirit flies, And close to his, how soon thy coffin lies. Blest pair, whose union future bard...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1232147931
- ISBN 13 9781232147930
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages70
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