Poems on Several Occasions With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures |
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[If for Our-selves the Tears profusely flow]
If for Our-selves the Tears profusely flow,Too justly we indulge the tender Woe,
Since Thou in Virtue's Robes wast richly drest,
And of fine Arts Abundantly possest!
But if we rather should Congratulate
A Friend's Enlargement and exalted State;
Resign'd to Providence, what can we less
Than chearful hail thy long'd-for Happiness,
Who now releas'd from ev'ry piercing Pain,
Dost in the Realms of Light Triumphant reign!
February, 1719–20.
W. Duncombe.
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