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SCGCJ.767.089
13 Oct 1767:31 (97)
A Poem occasioned by the death of the Rev. Mr. Wilton.
O muse, to whom elegiack lays belong,
Tho' ne'er before invok'd, assist my song;
Teach me in melancholy strains to mourn,
O'er pious Wilton's much lamented urn.
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Perhaps in harmony he strikes the string,
Or with the adoring seraph joins to sing:
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. . . [6 lines introduction to a second poem on the same.]
Let Carolina mourn, but Charles-town weep!
The pious Wilton's early fallen a-sleep.
Heaven's glorious chaplain he is gone to be,
Who cordially explained God's word to thee:
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