Poems and Plays by Mr. Jerningham. In Four Volumes ... The Ninth Edition |
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ON Miss JERNINGHAM.
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ON Miss JERNINGHAM.
January 1773.
Ah, venerate this hallow'd ground,And mark the infant-virtues round!
See Innocence, celestial fair,
With Childhood, Heav'n's peculiar care:
See Beauty opening into bloom,
Bending o'er this youthful tomb:
Behold Affection that endears,
And Wit beyond an infant's years,
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Still, still refusing to complain)
By Sorrow led, a choral band,
Fix'd on this sacred spot they stand!
And as they view this marble stone,
Their little Mistress they bemoan.
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