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VII.—ON AN ELEGY WRITTEN BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF HERTFORD, ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ROWE. 1737.

Struck with the sight of Philomela's urn
Eusebia weeps, and calls her muse to mourn:
While from her lips the tuneful sorrows fell
The groves confess a rising Philomel.