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EPITAPH.
For Dr. Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, Who died in Exile at Paris, in 1732. [His only Daughter having expired in his arms, immediately after she arrived in France to see him.]
Dialogue.
SHE.Yes, we have liv'd—one pang, and then we part!
May Heav'n, dear Father! now, have all thy Heart.
Yet ah! how once we lov'd, remember still,
Till you are Dust like me.
HE.
Dear Shade! I will:
Then mix this Dust with thine—O spotless Ghost!
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Is there on earth one Care, one Wish beside?
Yes—Save my Country, Heav'n,
—He said, and dy'd.
Alexander Pope: Minor poems | ||