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A Collection of Poems

Occasionally Writ On Several Subjects. By Isaac Thompson

Thompson, Isaac (1703-1776)

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Part I Pastoral Essays.

II.

Part II. Miscellaneous POEMS.

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To the PAINTER of a young Lady's Picture.

While you, Sir Artist, are allow'd to thrive,
(Whom no right pious Man would wish alive)
Divines on Idol-worship may declaim,
And urge the Force of sacred Texts, in vain;
For while your Pencil so profanely paints,
'Twill make more Sinners, than the Pulpit Saints.