Poems on Several Occasions To which is added Gondibert and Birtha, A Tragedy. By William Thompson |
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On the DEATH of Mr. Wearing, the Famous Musician at Oxford. |
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On the DEATH of Mr. Wearing, the Famous Musician at Oxford.
I
Poor Wearing to the Shades is gone,Like Orpheus, by mishap:
Not gone to seek his Wife, but gone,
To leave her in—a Scrape.
II
We find the Sisters three are deaf,Since Wearing now is dead;
For had the Fates but heard his Strings,
They wou'd have spar'd his Thread.
III
Death heard his Notes, and heard well-pleas'd,So drew his fatal Lance;
Death will keep Holyday; and He
Must play to Holben's Dance.
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