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SONNET.
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Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, 9
And new-born pleasure brings to happier men:
The fields to all their wonted tribute bear:
To warm their little loves the birds complain:
I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear,
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
And new-born pleasure brings to happier men:
The fields to all their wonted tribute bear:
To warm their little loves the birds complain:
I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear,
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
EPITAPH ON MRS. JANE CLARKE.
[See Woty's Poetical Calendar, part viii. p. 121. Nicoll's Select Poems, vol. vii. p. 331.]
This lady, the wife of Dr. John Clarke, physician at Epsom, died April 27, 1757; and was buried in the church of Beckenham, Kent.
Lo! where this silent marble weeps,
A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps:
A heart, within whose sacred cell
The peaceful virtues lov'd to dwell.
A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps:
A heart, within whose sacred cell
The peaceful virtues lov'd to dwell.
Notes
- ↑ V. 1. "This weeping marble had not ask'd a tear."Pope, Epitaph on Ed. D. of Buckingham. And Winds. For. "There o'er the martyr-king the marble weeps," 313. "orat te flebile Saxum." Burm. Anthol. Lat, vol. ii. p. 282.
"So we must weep, because we weep in vain." "Solon, when he wept for his son's death, on one saying to him, 'Weeping will not help,' answered: Ai abrò di τοῦτο δακρύω, ὅτι οὐδὲν ἀνύττω I weep for that very cause, that weeping will not avail,'" See Diog. Laert. vol. i. p. 39. ed. Meibomii. It is also told of Augustus. See also Fitzgeffry's Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake, B. 99. "Oh! therefore do we plaine, And therefore weepe, because we weepe in vaine." See also Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. x. p. 139, and Bamfylde's Sonnets, p. 6. ed. Park.
