IX. On General HENRY WITHERS, In Westminster Abbey, 1729. HERE, WITHERS, reft! thou braveft, gentleft mind, Thy Country's friend, but more of human-kind. Oh born to Arms! O Worth in Youth approv'd! O foft Humanity, in Age belov'd! For thee the hardy Veteran drops a tear, And the gay Courtier feels the figh fincere. X. On Mr. ELIJAH FENTON, At Eafthamfted in Berks, 1730. TH HIS modeft Stone, what few vain Marbles can, A Poet, bleft beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept facred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud Praise, and Friend to learned Ease, Content with Science in the Vale of Peace, Calmly Calmly he look'd on either Life, and here XI. On Mr. G A Y. In Westminster-Abbey, 1732. F Manners gentle, of Affections mild; Another. WELL then! poor Gay lies under ground, So there's an end of honeft Jack: So little juftice here he found, 'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back. 10 XII. Intended for Sir ISAAC NEWTON, In Westminster-Abbey. ISAACUS NEWTONUS: Quem Immortalem Teftantur Tempus, Natura, Cœlum: Mortalem Hoc marmor fatetur. Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in Night: 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 fee him.] DIALOGUE. SHE. Y ES, we have liv'd-one pang, and then we part! May Heaven, dear Father! now have all thy Heart. Yet ah! how once we lov'd, remember still, Till you are duft like me. HE. HE. Dear Shade! I will: Then mix this duft with thine-O spotless Ghost! -He faid, and dy'd. XIV. On EDMOND Duke of BUCKINGHAM, I Who died in the Nineteenth Year of his Age, 1735 F modeft Youth, with cool Reflection crown'd, XV. For H XV. For One who would not be buried in Weftminster-Abbey. EROES and KINGS! your distance keep; Who never flatter'd Folks like you: Another, on the fame. UNDER this Marble, or under this Sill, Or under this Turf, or e'en what they will; XVI. Lord CONINGSBY's EPITAPH *. H ERE lies Lord Coningsby-be civil; The reft God knows-fo does the Devil. * This Epitaph, originally written on Picus Mirandula, is applied to F. Chartres, and printed among the works of Swift. See Hawkefworth edition, vol. vi. S. On |