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EPIGRAMS.
II.—A CONTRAST.
When Anna dies, what genuine grief appears!What mournful silence and ill-boding tears!
When George expires, what multitudes employ
Their shouts and bonfires to proclaim their joy!
Hope not, ye Tories, from a coming reign;
Resume despair, and own the triumph vain:
Another George may rise, but not another Anne.
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III.—ON THE QUEEN'S HERMITAGE.
When Charles the Austrian laid his grandeur down,He found retirement, but he lost a crown.
Here both extremes together join'd are seen,—
The cave, the court,—the hermit and the queen.
V.—ANOTHER.
[You build, my friend, in honour of your time]
You build, my friend, in honour of your time,Italian structures in an English clime;
The finish'd pile forbidding to be shown,
While high-raised bricks immure the polish'd stone.
Thus architecture rises worthy thee,—
For none to' inhabit, and for none to see!
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VI.—ANOTHER.
[Once forms of conjuring were penal all]
Once forms of conjuring were penal all,And prayers to Beelzebub were capital;
And once, when priests the nation over-awed,
Gifts to the poor were reckon'd gifts to God.
Now to give lands to God is counted evil;
But all have freedom to adore the devil.
VII.—ANOTHER.
[Some laugh, while others mourn]
Some laugh, while others mourn;Some toil, while others play;
One dies, and one is born:
So runs the world away.
Poems on several occasions | ||