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Fleuron from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome, 2nd edition published in 1739

 

TO

THOMAS MARRIOT Esq;

I prefix your Name to the following Poem, as a Monument of the long, and sincere Friendship I have born you: I am sensible you are too good a Judge of Poetry to approve it; however it will be a Testimony of my Respect: You confer'd Obligations upon me very early in Life, almost as soon as I was capable of receiving them: May these Verses survive the Subject of them, Death! and remain, a Memorial of our Friendship, and my Gratitude when I am no more

William Broome.

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A Poem on DEATH.

Τὶς ὀιδὲν ἐι τὸ ζῆν μὲν ἐστι κατθανεῖν,
Τὸ κατθανεῖν δὲ ζῆν;Eurip.

 

O! for Elijah's Car to wing my Way
O'er the dark Gulph of Death to endless Day
A thousand Ways alas! frail Mortals lead
To her dire Den, and dreadful all to tread!