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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures

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AUGUSTA.

Recitative.

'Tis Fame's chief Immortality,
BRITANNIA, to be mourn'd by thee.
I know the Loss; from midnight Skies
Ill Omens late did strike my Eyes;
Near the radiant Northern Carr
I look'd, and saw a falling Star.

 

Mrs. Tofts.