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PC.773.102
16-23 Aug 1773:1213, 1221 (345)
[In essay entitled "The Father and the Son, An Affecting
Relation, "] The following fine simile so aptly illustrates
the beauty and untimely death, of this incomparable young
man, that I am persuaded every good-natured reader will
excuse my inserting it:
As a gay flower, with blooming beauties crown'd,
Cut by the share, lies languid on the ground,
Or some tall poppy, that, o'ercharg'd with rain,
Bends the faint head, and sinks upon the plain,
So fair, so languishing sweet he lies,
His head declin'd, and drooping as he dies. [signed]
Virgil.
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O happy both! if aught the muse could shed
Of tears eternal which embalm the dead;
Whilst round Britannia's cost old ocean raves,
And to her standard roll th'embattled waves,
Fair empress of the deep, so long your names
Should live lamented!
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