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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ELEGY ON A FAVOURITE BANTUM,
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ELEGY ON A FAVOURITE BANTUM,
Who travelled more than three hundréd miles; and who, soon after his arrival at Churston , in Devonshire, was drowned in a Cistern near Torbay.
Written by John H---y, Esq. 1800.
Brave British seamen drop a tear,
Kindly bedew a stranger's bier:
A brother's sufferings pity claim,
And, like yourselves, I'm known to fame.
Kindly bedew a stranger's bier:
A brother's sufferings pity claim,
And, like yourselves, I'm known to fame.
Like you, the morning watch I keep,
Unfurl my sails, and shake off sleep;
Eager, like you, I meet my foe,
And when I conquer, then I crow!
Unfurl my sails, and shake off sleep;
Eager, like you, I meet my foe,
And when I conquer, then I crow!
But ah! in chrystal flood, I trace
A rival, meet him face to face;
I stoopt to conquer—vain the strife,
By one false step depriv'd of life.
A rival, meet him face to face;
I stoopt to conquer—vain the strife,
By one false step depriv'd of life.
A sprightly Bantum once was I,
Entomb'd in this sweet grove I lie;
Moor'd head and stern by seamen brave,
Who found, like me, a watry grave.
Entomb'd in this sweet grove I lie;
Moor'd head and stern by seamen brave,
Who found, like me, a watry grave.
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