The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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EPIGRAM,
To Him who put on the Hatchment “IN CŒLO QUIES.”
“In Cœlo quies!”—very well.But is the Old Man there, can'st tell?
'Tis modest tho'—In Cœlo quies:
You'll give me leave to guess how nigh he is.
Why did'st not write “Qui es in Cœlo,
If thou wast sure he's not gone bélow?
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