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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.

Genius of Britain! give thy Sorrows o'er.
A grateful Tribute thou hast paid
To thy DEVONIO's noble Shade;
Now, vainly weep the Dead no more!

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For see—the Duke and Patriot still survives,
And in his Great Successor lives.