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A Pastoral Elegy To the Memory of Miss Mary Urquhart

Daughter to William Urquhart of Meldrum Esq; Who died the 24th November 1758. By Francis Douglas
 

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—The death of those we love
Affects the soul with many grating pangs,
Above the reach of language to express.
Not keen distress, nor joyless age can loose
The sympathetick tye, or cool the love
Which warms the breast of friends!—