An Epistle in Verse, occasioned by the death of James Boswell, Esquire of Auchinleck -- Addressed to the Rev. Dr. T. D. By the Rev. Samuel Martin |
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Such is the human mind; or such, at least,
The frequent feeling of your M---'s breast.
One striking recent instance has the power
The reign of thought and reason to restore:
Beyond the church-yard, or the thousands slain
By storms, by earthquakes, by the bloody plain,
And the rude ravagers of human kind;
And what can more compose, or fix the mind,
Than Boswell's funeral? ---
The frequent feeling of your M---'s breast.
One striking recent instance has the power
The reign of thought and reason to restore:
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By storms, by earthquakes, by the bloody plain,
And the rude ravagers of human kind;
And what can more compose, or fix the mind,
Than Boswell's funeral? ---
At length, 'tis come,
The awful day that sends him to the tomb.
Boswell, no more! Is Boswell, then, no more?
'Tis felt, 'tis mourn'd, 'tis question'd o'er and o'er.
The awful day that sends him to the tomb.
Boswell, no more! Is Boswell, then, no more?
'Tis felt, 'tis mourn'd, 'tis question'd o'er and o'er.
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