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Poems and songs

By the late Richard Gall. With a memoir of the author
  

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xxv

I saw him faint! I saw him sink to rest!
Like one ordain'd to swell the vulgar throng;
As though the Virtues had not warm'd his breast,
As though the Muses not inspir'd his tongue.
SHENSTONE.