The Works of the Late Aaron Hill ... In Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, And of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With An Essay on the Art of Acting |
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Why in such thoughtless haste? O stay, and know,The dust, now mould'ring here, once hurried, so!
If will, to serve, or art, to please mankind,
If being mild, just, gen'rous, and kind;
If harmless mirth, free friendship, stingless truth,
Unswerving judgment, and un-erring youth;
If these cou'd e're have brib'd the dart of death,
This grave's gay tenant still had kept his breath:
Stay, then! and lend one sigh, to mourn his fate,
So may your loss be griev'd! so may your death be late.
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