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To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations.

WE trace the pow'r of Death from tomb to tomb,
And his are all the ages yet to come.
'Tis his to call the planets from on high,
To blacken Phœbus, and dissolve the sky;

His too, when all in his dark realms are hurl'd,

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From its firm base to shake the solid world;
His fatal sceptre rules the spacious whole,
And trembling nature rocks from pole to pole.

Awful he moves, and wide his wings are spread:

Behold thy brother number'd with the dead!

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From bondage freed, the exulting spirit flies
Beyond Olympus, and these starry skies.
Lost in our woe for thee, blest shade, we mourn
In vain; to earth thou never must return.

Thy sisters too, fair mourner, feel the dart

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Of Death, and with fresh torture rend thine heart.