Poetry & Verse
Epitaph. on Edmund Duke of Buckingham, Who Died in the Nineteenth Year of
By Alexander PopeSource: Alexander Pope - PoetryDB (Public Domain)Short96 words
HIS AGE, 1735. If modest youth, with cool reflection crown'd, And every opening virtue blooming round, Could save a parent's justest pride from fate, Or...
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HIS AGE, 1735. If modest youth, with cool reflection crown'd, And every opening virtue blooming round, Could save a parent's justest pride from fate, Or add one patriot to a sinking state; This weeping marble had not ask'd thy tear, Or sadly told how many hopes lie here! The living virtue now had shone approved, The senate heard him, and his country loved.…
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