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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
  
  

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EPITAPH ON AN INFIRM OLD LADY, Who died aged 96.

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Worn with old Time in many a circling year,
Nor young in faith and truth, with nought to fear
And all to hope, I dropt this trembling load,
And on the wings of Virtue soar'd to God.