Alexander Pope: Minor poems Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt |
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THREE EPITAPHS On
John Hewet
and
Sarah Drew
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Alexander Pope: Minor poems | ||
THREE EPITAPHS On John Hewet and Sarah Drew .
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[When Eastern lovers feed the fun'ral fire]
When Eastern lovers feed the fun'ral fire,On the same pile the faithful fair expire;
Here pitying heav'n that virtue mutual found,
And blasted both, that it might neither wound.
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Sent his own lightning, and the Victims seiz'd.
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II. EPITAPH On John Hewet and Sarah Drew .
In the Churchyard at Stanton Harcourt.
NEAR THIS PLACE LIE THE BODIES OF JOHN HEWET and SARAH DREW AN INDUSTRIOUS YOUNG MAN, AND VIRTUOUS MAIDEN OF THIS PARISH; CONTRACTED IN MARRIAGE WHO BEING WITH MANY OTHERS AT HARVEST WORK, WERE BOTH IN AN INSTANT KILLED BY LIGHTNING ON THE LAST DAY OF JULY 1718.
Think not by rigorous judgment seiz'd,
A pair so faithful could expire;
Victims so pure Heav'n saw well pleas'd
And snatch'd them in Cœlestial fire.
A pair so faithful could expire;
Victims so pure Heav'n saw well pleas'd
And snatch'd them in Cœlestial fire.
Live well and fear no sudden fate;
When God calls Virtue to the grave,
Alike tis Justice, soon or late,
Mercy alike to kill or save.
When God calls Virtue to the grave,
Alike tis Justice, soon or late,
Mercy alike to kill or save.
Virtue unmov'd can hear the Call,
And face the Flash that melts the Ball.
And face the Flash that melts the Ball.
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III. EPITAPH On the Stanton-Harcourt Lovers.
Here lye two poor Lovers, who had the mishapTho very chaste people, to die of a Clap.
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