By painful sickness long severely prest,
Here sinks, on Nature's sacred lap of rest,
A friend, who, in a life too short, display'd
A mind in virtue bright, without one shade.
Hence with unusual grief is Fondness mov'd,
Hence more than Pity's sighs for one belov'd;
Unshaken Honour sheds a manly tear,
And weeping Virtue stops, a mourner here.
Epitaph On A Friend
John Carr (sir)
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Poem topics: friend, grief, life, nature, shade, long, bright, sickness, mind, tear, short, display, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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