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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INSCRIPTION FOR THE TOMB OF Mrs. ELIZABETH PIDGEON, Who died suddenly. |
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INSCRIPTION FOR THE TOMB OF Mrs. ELIZABETH PIDGEON, Who died suddenly.
Weep, Reader, the sad tidings here announc'd!Death, that fell Kite, on Betty Pidgeon pounc'd:
Yet, tho' her sudden flight our grief demands,
Her's is the Pidgeon-house not made with hands;
For in her life the Serpent's wisdom shone,
And the Dove's innocency was her own.
Then, till Heav'n wakes to happiness thy soul,
Rest, gentle Pidgeon, in this Pidgeon-hole.
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