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Tixall Poetry.
On
the Death of
Mr Morgan,
Whose Last Words Were, "O God, What Is Man!"
As sad Symiramis was sate
Hard by the window of her cell,
To teach a note more passionate,
Unto her sister Philomell;
Hard by the window of her cell,
To teach a note more passionate,
Unto her sister Philomell;
Halfe sighing, and halfe singing, she
Thus to the bird: Cease to repine
Thy brothers cruelty to thee,
And weepe with me the fall of mine.
Thus to the bird: Cease to repine
Thy brothers cruelty to thee,
And weepe with me the fall of mine.
Weepe, weepe with me the fate of him,
Who, at his lifes extended spann,
Left me the burden of this hymne,
O God, O God, O what is man!
Who, at his lifes extended spann,
Left me the burden of this hymne,
O God, O God, O what is man!
