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The Wiccamical Chaplet

a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford
Huddesford, George (1749-1809)
  
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SMALLER POEMS, AND ODES.
  
VERSES,
  
THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY.
  
ODE, WRITTEN AT THE FOOT OF SNOWDON,
  
ODE, ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND,
  
ODE, TO AN ANGRY MISTRESS.
  
ODE TO A COUNSEL IN SOUTH WALES,
  
ODE TO THE CROW.
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ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.
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ELEGIES, AND PLAINTIVE PIECES.
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NUGÆ POETICÆ, &c.
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SONNETS.
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INSCRIPTIONS AND EPITAPHS.
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SONGS AND BALLADS.
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MOCK-HEROICAL AND BURLESQUE PIECES, PARODIES, EPIGRAMS, &c.
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, FRAGMENTS, &c.

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SONNET XVIII. ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS WARTON.

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Say, shall the Muse o'er the fall'n hero's bier
Th'eternal monument of glory raise,
Swell the loud pæan of harmonious praise,
And high Ambition's banner'd trophies rear,
While silent flows the tributary tear
Which to her favourite Son the sorrowing pays,
Unstrung her useless lyre and mute her lays?
But hark! a strain divine now strikes mine ear:
The sacred Bard his independent fame
Shall from his own immortal verse receive.
Soon dies the Warrior's and the Statesman's name
His aid if no recording Poet give:
But wreaths of endless bloom shall Warton claim,
While Wit, while Learning, and while Fancy live.
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