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 |
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[Farewell, dear youth, whom Wykeham's wide-spread name]
Farewell, dear youth, whom Wykeham's wide-spread name,Far from thy native isle, to Albion brought,
Warm'd with the love of science, to the walls
Whence Chiefs and Bards and holy Priests have sprung
Of ancient wisdom; for relentless Death
Hath swept thee to the grave! but as I tread
The solemn isle by the dim taper's gleam,
A sudden voice thus strikes my wand'ring ear:
“Weep not for me, to Heav'n's high mansions snatch'd
“From earth's low trifles, from life's pains and woes:
“I conquer Death, and triumph o'er the grave.”
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