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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. Written at Dover, previous to my sailing for the Continent, where his Remains were deposited. 1779- ONCE more the Muse her drooping sail must spread Above the swelling bosom of the wave, By sad remembrance and affection led, To breathe their dictates at Philander's grave. Ye weeping nymphs, then waft a tender gale, Whose plaintive voice shall sob along the sea; While secret anguish murmurs in the sail, And list'ning Tritons join the mournful lay. Tis done?Affliction on that coast appears, Where pining Care and Melancholy reign: In secret woe sad Meditation bares Her heaving breast, and mutters to the main. ' Stray' d from his cell, the shiv'ring spectre moves: (The ghost of manhood into phrenzy wrought ) Averse to all that sense, or nature, loves, Each gen'rous pulse is wasted into thought. D 2 Yet Yet why, my friend, adorn'd with ev'ry grace, Of polish'd manners, and of mind serene, With youth to bear thee thro' the shining race Of titled grandeur, and its dazzling scene? Ah why didst thou the specious tale believe, To quit thy birth-right for imagin'd ease ? For crimes in spotless innocence to grieve, And, blest with temper, be denied to please f Does earth its produce to no purpose yield ? Is it a crime with cheerfulness to dwell ? Heav'n shines benignant o'er the cultur'd field, Nor bounds its blessings by the cloyster'd cell. If zealots only, to whose jaundic'd eyes Fair reason looks intolerably foul, Can claim a partial title to the skies, How weak the spirit which directs the whole How mean the spark that lights us into day? Ethereal produce of eternal flame If life be doom'd in horrour to decay, And anguish settle on this goodly frame. A renunciatio...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458897121 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458897125 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 220 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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