Death & Dying
Lines Sent to George Lyttelton, Esq., Soon After the Death of His Wife
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. J. Logie Robertson (1908)
Death & Dying
Go, little book, and find our friend,
Who nature and the muses loves,
Whose cares the public virtues blend
With all the softness of the groves.
A fitter time thou canst not choose
His fostering friendship to repay ;
Go then, and try, my rural muse,
To steal his widowed hours away.
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Thomson, James. “Lines Sent to George Lyttelton, Esq., Soon After the Death of His Wife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/thomson/25/.
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Thomson, James. “Lines Sent to George Lyttelton, Esq., Soon After the Death of His Wife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/thomson/25/.
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