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Major Pack's Poetical Remains

Published from his Original Manuscripts. To which are Added, translations from Catullus, Tibullus, and Ovid. With an Essay on the Roman elegiac poets, &c. [by Richardson Pack]
Pack, Richardson (1682-1728)
 
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Poetical Remains OF Richardson Pack, Esq. Written in the Year 1727.

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21

STANZAS,

OCCASIONED By what happened at Aberdeen, October 15, 1728.

I

How odly is a Lover fated!
When the dear Cause of all his Smart,
By Two mad Rivals daily rated,
Nor shuts against a Third her Heart.

II

My Foe's indulgently receiv'd,
My Friend with Smiles invited,
And I (God knows if I'm deceiv'd)
Now favour'd, and now slighted.

III

Indiff'rence is a greater Curse
To me than would have been your Scorn;
'Tis barbarous to starve at Nurse
A Passion that was Hopefull Born.
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