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The Poetical Works of the late Christopher Anstey

With Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, By his son, John Anstey
Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
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[Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author]
  
[From wealth, from honours, and from courts remov'd]
  
[With every plague that can conspire]
  
TO SIR WILLIAM DRAPER, K.B.
  
TO THE SAME;
  
TO COLONEL B. HALE,
  
TO DAVID GARRICK, ESQ.
  
[I ne'er (tho' fame applaud me to my wrong)]
  
[O! pause a while, whoe'er thou art]
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[O! pause a while, whoe'er thou art]

O! pause a while, whoe'er thou art,
That drink'st this healing Stream;
If e'er Compassion o'er thy Heart
Diffus'd its heav'nly Beam,
Think on the Wretch, whose distant Lot
This friendly Aid denies;
Think how, in some poor, lonely Cot,
He unregarded lies!
Hither the helpless Stranger bring,
Relieve his heart-felt Woe,
And let thy Bounty, like this Spring,
In genial Currents flow:
So may thy Years from Grief, and Pain,
And pining Want be free,
And thou from Heav'n that Mercy gain,
The Poor receive from thee.
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