Death & Dying
Inscribed on the Monument of the Rev. William Bagshot Stevens
From Poetical Works, ed. Walter Scott (1810), vol. II
Reader, if thee each sacred worth inspire,
The Patriot’s ardour, and the Poet’s fire;
Unsullied honour, friendship’s generous glow,
Sky-pointing hope, that smiles on finite woe
Such STEVENS was, and thy congenial tear
Drops on the Scholar,--Bard,--and Christian’s bier.
Codex Note
Source: The Poetical Works of Anna Seward, ed. Walter Scott (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1810), vol. II.
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