IX. ON GENERAL HENRY WITHERS, IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY, 1729. HERE, Withers, rest! thou bravest, gentlest mind, For thee the hardy veteran drops a tear, Withers, adieu! yet not with thee remove X. ON MR. ELIJAH FENTON, AT EASTHAMSTED IN BERKS, 1730. THIS modest stone, what few vain marbles can, A poet, bless'd beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied; 5 Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he . died. 10 ΧΙ. ON MR. GAY, IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY, 1732. 5 OF manners gentle, of affections mild; 10 XII. INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON, IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. ISAACUS NEWTONUS: Quem Immortalem Testantur Tempus, Natura, Colum: Mortalem Hoc marmor fatetur. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: 6 God said, Let Newton be!' and all was light. XIII. ON DR. FRANCIS ATTERBURY, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER, Who died in exile at Paris, 1732, his only daughter having expired in his arms immediately after she arrived in France to see him. DIALOGUE. SHE. YES, we have lived-one pang, and then we part! HE. Dear shade! I will; Then mix this dust with thine.-O spotless ghost! -He said, and died. |