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Poems on Various Subjects

By John Thelwall. In Two Volumes

Thelwall, John (1764-1834)

II.

A DRAMATIC POEM, FOUNDED ON FACTS, RECORDED IN THE REPORTS OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY.

ELEGIES, PASTORALS, AND OTHER RURAL POEMS.

ELEGIES.

PASTORALS.

ECLOGUE I. THE TEARS OF HOBBINOL.

II.

ECLOGUE II. THE WEEPING LYRE.

RURAL POEMS.

MISCELLANIES.

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STROPHE I.

Oh Rage! of all the fiends of hell
Who rule the wretched mortal's mind,

And prompt to actions base and fell,
Most stubborn, inconsistent, blind!
How curs'd are they
Who own thy sway?
How doubly curs'd the wretched thralls
On whom thy prompted vengeance falls!