A Collection of Original Poems By Samuel Derrick |
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On Mr. Pope's Death being mentioned in some News-papers, without any Account of his Character, Works, Life, Age, or Circumstances of his Illness. |
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On Mr. Pope's Death being mentioned in some News-papers, without any Account of his Character, Works, Life, Age, or Circumstances of his Illness.
When some fat Burgess nurs'd in legal stealth,
Resigns his worthless soul, and sin-got wealth,
The pompous paragraph expands his name,
And Advertisers hawk him one day's fame;
But when from Britain all the Muses fled,
Scarce half a line inform'd us, Pope was dead!
Resigns his worthless soul, and sin-got wealth,
The pompous paragraph expands his name,
And Advertisers hawk him one day's fame;
But when from Britain all the Muses fled,
Scarce half a line inform'd us, Pope was dead!
Thus should Oxonia's city sink in fire,
And trade and science in one blaze expire;
As well on shops might dull attention turn,
And, unregarded the Bodleian burn.
And trade and science in one blaze expire;
As well on shops might dull attention turn,
And, unregarded the Bodleian burn.
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