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764. UPON HIS KINSWOMAN, MRS. M. S.
Here lies a virgin, and as sweet
As e'er was wrapt in winding sheet.
Her name if next you would have known,
The marble speaks it, Mary Stone:
Who dying in her blooming years,
This stone for name's sake melts to tears.
If, fragrant virgins, you'll but keep
A fast, while jets and marbles weep,
And praying, strew some roses on her,
You'll do my niece abundant honour.
As e'er was wrapt in winding sheet.
Her name if next you would have known,
The marble speaks it, Mary Stone:
Who dying in her blooming years,
This stone for name's sake melts to tears.
If, fragrant virgins, you'll but keep
A fast, while jets and marbles weep,
And praying, strew some roses on her,
You'll do my niece abundant honour.
765. FELICITY KNOWS NO FENCE.
Of both our fortunes good and bad we find
Prosperity more searching of the mind:
Felicity flies o'er the wall and fence,
While misery keeps in with patience.
Prosperity more searching of the mind:
Felicity flies o'er the wall and fence,
While misery keeps in with patience.
766. DEATH ENDS ALL WOE.
Time is the bound of things; where'er we go
Fate gives a meeting, Death's the end of woe.
Fate gives a meeting, Death's the end of woe.
767. A CONJURATION TO ELECTRA.
- ↑ Tods of wool, literally, tod of wool=twenty-eight pounds, here used of the fleecy clouds.
