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BPB.763.033
7 Nov 1763:11,12, 13 (325)
The following candid observation on the volume of poetry,
presented to the royal family, by the president and fellows
of Harvard College, on the death of the [late] King, and the
accession and nuptials of his present majesty, [article and
poems in Latin follows in column 2]
The following verses, though said to be written by a
youthful son of Harvard, are allowed to be nervous; and we
cannot but congratulate the college on so promising a pupil.
Restless ambition dwelt in Caesar's mind,
He murder'd nations and enslav'd mankind:
He found a generous nation great and free,
And gave them tyrants for their liberty.
. . . [12 lines]
In another poem we find the following agreeable traits of
his late majesty's character.
No sword of violence protects a crime,
Stains the clear page, or dims the golden time;
No vice illustrious stalk'd behind the King,
No shelter'd folly fledg'd beneath his wing;
. . . [18 lines]
This poem closes with a strain which we should hardly have
expected from an ancient university, much less from an
infant-seminary.
May one clear calm attend thee to thy close,
One lengthen'd sunshine of compleat repose:
Correct our crimes, and beam that christian mind
O'er the wide wreck of dissolute mankind;
. . . [4 lines, plus 1/2 column]
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