Poems on Several Occasions By Edward, Lord Thurlow. The Second Edition, considerably enlarged |
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[How oft, O Moon, in thy most tragick face]
How oft, O Moon, in thy most tragick face,The travell'd map of mournful history,
Some record of long-perish'd woe I trace,
Fetch'd from old Kings' moth-eaten memory;
Which Thou perhaps didst in it's acting see,
The perturbation of it's doleful birth,
Then crawling on to sad maturity,
And it's last sleep in the forgetful earth:
But if, in style proportioned to it's worth,
We raise it up, to shake the World again,
To madness we shall turn heart-easing mirth,
With horrour laying waste the minds of men:
O, marble is the flesh, unmov'd can be,
When it beholds so fearful tragedy!
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