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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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TO THE SAME,

ON HER HAVING ACCIDENTALLY HURT HER EYE.

That orb extinct a general grief would draw;
For you and for the world, how just! how keen!
You'd lose the clearest eye that ever saw;
The world the brightest, that was ever seen!