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Posthumous Works of Dr. George Sewell

... To which are added Poems on Several Occasions, Published in his Life-Time
Sewell, George

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TO HIS GRACE THE Duke of Newcastle.
 
Of the Usefulness OF SNAILS In Medicine.
 
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POEMS ON Several Occasions.

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Of the Usefulness OF SNAILS In Medicine.
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SOLILOQUY.

I

Why Damon with the forward Day
Dost thou thy little Spot survey?
From Tree to Tree, with doubtful Cheer,
Observe the Progress of the Year;
What Winds arise, what Rains descend,
When thou before that Year shalt end?
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II

What do thy Noon-day Walks avail,
To clear the Leaf, and pick the Snail?
Then wantonly to Death decree
An Insect usefuller than thee.
Thou, and the Worm, art Brother-kind,
As low, as earthy, and as blind.

III

Vain Wretch, canst thou expect to see
The downy Peach make Court to thee?
Or that thy Sense shall ever meet
The Bean-Flower's deep-embosom'd Sweet?
Exhaling with an Evening's Blast,
Thy Evenings then will all be past.

IV

Thy narrow Pride, thy fancied Green,
(For Vanity's in little seen)
All must be left when Death appears,
In spight of Wishes, Groans and Tears;
Nor one of all thy Plants that grow,
But Rosemary, will with thee go.
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