Several Occasions.
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Monsieur Maynard Imitated.
To the Right Honourable
The Lord CORNWALLIS.
I.
While past its Noon the Lamp of Life declines,
And Age my vital Flame invades;
Faint, and more faint, as it descends, it shines,
And hastes, alas! to set in Shades.
While past its Noon the Lamp of Life declines,
And Age my vital Flame invades;
Faint, and more faint, as it descends, it shines,
And hastes, alas! to set in Shades.
II.
Then some kind Pow'r shall guide my Ghost to Glades,
Where seated by Elysian Springs,
Fam'd Addison attunes to Patriot Shades
His Lyre, and Albion's Glory sings.
Then some kind Pow'r shall guide my Ghost to Glades,
Where seated by Elysian Springs,
Fam'd Addison attunes to Patriot Shades
His Lyre, and Albion's Glory sings.
III.
