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ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY - Alexander Pope, The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope [1903]

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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Cambridge Edition, ed. Henry W. Boynton (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903).

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ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ.

IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

JACOBUS CRAGGS

REGI MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ A SECRETIS, ET CONSILIIS SANCTIORIBUS: PRINCIPIS PARITER AC POPULI AMOR ET DELICIÆ: VIXIT TITULIS ET INVIDIA MAJOR ANNOS, HEU PAUCOS, XXXV. OB. FEB. XIV. MDCCXX.

  • Statesman, yet Friend to Truth! of Soul sincere,
  • In Action faithful, and in Honour clear!
  • Who broke no Promise, served no private end,
  • Who gain’d no Title, and who lost no Friend;
  • Ennobled by himself, by all approv’d,
  • Prais’d, wept, and honour’d, by the Muse he lov’d.