Citation - Virginia Gazette-Williamsburg (Ri): 1768.06.09

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Index Entry Lyric, elegy [beg] Why mourns the muse? Why heaves the breast with woe? 
Location York 
Citation
VGW(RI.768.022
9 Jun 1768:32 (109)
[from York]
Why mourns the muse?  Why heaves the breast with woe?
Whence springs this sigh?  What gives that tear to flow?
Does meagre famine waste this fertile shore?
Plague thin the town?  Or is Catton no more?
. . . [26 more lines, elegy on death of Benjamin Catton]


Generic Title Virginia Gazette-Williamsburg (Ri) 
Date 1768.06.09 
Publisher Rind, William 
City, State Williamsburg, VA 
Year 1768 
Bibliography B0049300
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