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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AN INSCRIPTION ON AN OBELISK AT LONGFORD IN WILTS, The Seat of the Earl of Radnor,
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AN INSCRIPTION ON AN OBELISK AT LONGFORD IN WILTS, The Seat of the Earl of Radnor,
Commemorating the unhappy Fate of a Mr. Cervington, who was formerly in Possession of that Estate.
While o'er these Lawns thine eye delighted strays,Allow a pause to hear the tale of woe.—
Here stood the parent Elm in elder days,
Here, o'er its Lord, slow wav'd the wither'd bough;
While pale and cold his famish'd cheek full low,
On the rude turf, in Death's last swooning lay. [OMITTED]
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As by the menials taunted from the door,
Fainting, he wander'd; then beneath the tree
Sunk down:—Sweet Heav'n! what pangs his bosom tore,
When o'er yon lordly dome, his own no more,
He roll'd his dying eyes!—Ah, what compare
To this the lessons taught of sages hoar!—
By his mad revels, by the gilded snare,
By all thy hopes of joy, O Fortune's Child, “Beware!”
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