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Rhapsodies

By W. H. Ireland

Ireland, W. H. (1777-1835)

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EPITAPH, Written at the request of a friend, on his much-lamented wife.

Stay, pitying passenger! and vent the sigh;
Shed, shed with me the sympathetic tear;
An angel's fled; stern fate has cast the die,
And love and friendship both lie slumb'ring here.