Living
On Mr Churchill's Death
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
Living
Says Tom to Richard, Churchill's dead;
Says Richard, Tom, you lie,
Old Rancour the report hath spread,
But Genius cannot die.
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Codex Note
Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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Cunningham, John. “On Mr Churchill's Death.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cunningham_j/87/.
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Cunningham, John. “On Mr Churchill's Death.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cunningham_j/87/.
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