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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INSCRIPTIO URNÆ.
TRANSLATION.
With every Virtue, every Charm, in bloom,Swept, how untimely! to the ruthless tomb,
Maria, gentlest Fair, adieu!
Caress'd by every other Maid,
Alas! how coldly is repaid
The wish that dwells on you.
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