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Elegy on the death of the Reverend Jonathan Mayhew ...

who departed this life July 9th, Anno Domini, 1766. Aetatis suae 46

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21.

Those Mists of Passion which mislead, chastise,
Undazled, unseduced, assist my Care,
(Pomp's flitting Meteor quench beneath these Eyes,)
To speak of Men and Manners as they are: