AND THOU ART DEAD, AS YOUNG AND FAIR.[lower-roman 1]
Heu, quanto minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui meminisse!"[decimal 1]
1.
And thou art dead, as young and fair
As aught of mortal birth;
And form so soft, and charms so rare,
Too soon returned to Earth![lower-roman 2]
Though Earth received them in her bed,
And o'er the spot the crowd may tread[lower-roman 3]
In carelessness or mirth,
There is an eye which could not brook
A moment on that grave to look.
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- ↑ ["The Lovers' Walk is terminated with an ornamental urn, inscribed to Miss Dolman, a beautiful and amiable relation of Mr. Shenstone's, who died of the small-pox, about twenty-one years of age, in the following words on one side:—
"'Peramabili consobrinæ
M.D.'On the other side—
"'Ah! Maria!
pvellarvm elegantissima!
ah Flore venvstatis abrepta,
vale!
hev qvanto minvs est
cvm reliqvis versari
qvam tui
meminisse.'"(From a Description of the Leasowes, by A. Dodsley; Poetical Works of William Shenstone [1798], p. xxix.)]