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Poems, by Joseph Cottle

Second edition, with additions

Cottle, Joseph (1770-1853)

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Sir MALCOLM AND ALLA,

WAR,

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MONODY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN HENDERSON, A. B. OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD.

AN ATTEMPT AT A FREE PARAPHRASE OF SOME PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH PSALM.

RICARDO AND CASSANDRA,

LEE BOO,

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If on the slaughter'd field some mind humane,
Should stop to sooth a gasping Soldier's pain;
Enquire the cause that urg'd him to engage
In war's fell clangor, and infernal rage;
“I know no cause,” his trembling tongue replies,
And with a hollow groan distends his frame, and dies.