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QUESTION II.
An Invalid, beside the Pump,Thus question'd, leaning on his stump,—
“Pray, have you seen that Child of Sorrow,
Who makes us all dispos'd to borrow
Niobe's tears for our relief,
When he insists upon our grief?
Yet sweet the tear, and soft the sigh—
He's sure the Soul of Tragedy!”
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