Secular Poems Including a Few Pieces By His Twin Brother Thomas Eugenius Phil
Secular Poems Including a Few Pieces By His Twin Brother Thomas Eugenius Phil
Vaughan Henry
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When, unexpected, from the angry North, A fatal sullen whirl-wind sallies forth, And with a full-mouthed blast rends from the ground, 5 The shady twins, which, rushing, scatter round Their sighing leaves, whilst overborne with strength. Their trembling heads bow to a prostrate length ; So forced, fell he; so, immaturely, Death Stifled his able heart and active breath. 20 The world scarce knew him yet, his early soul Had but new-broke her day, and rather stole A sight, than gave one ; as if subt...ly she Would learn our stock, but hide his treasury. His years, — should Time lay both his wings and glass 25 Unto his charge — could not be summed — alas ! — To a full score : though in so short a span His riper thoughts had purchased more of man Than all those worthless livers, which yet quick Have quite outgrown their own arithmetic. 30 He seized perfections, and without a dull And mossy gray possessed a solid skull ; No crooked knowledge neither, nor did he Wear the friend's name for ends and policy, AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR.
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