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Original Poems and Translations

By Francis Fawkes
Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)
  
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I. On a very good WOMAN.

Could marble know what virtue's buried here,
This monument would scarce refuse a tear,
But mourn so early snatch'd from mortal life,
The tenderest parent, and the dearest wife,
Bless'd with sweet temper, and of soul so even,
She seem'd a copy of the saints in heaven.
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