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ON MR. ROWE 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 MR. ROWE

IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

    • Thy reliques, Rowe! to this sad shrine we trust,
    • And near thy Shakspeare place thy honour’d bust,
    • Oh, next him, skill’d to draw the tender tear—
    • For never heart felt passion more sincere—
    • To nobler sentiment to fire the brave—
    • For never Briton more disdain’d a slave!
    • Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest;
    • Blest in thy Genius, in thy Love too blest!
    • And blest, that timely from our scene remov’d,
    • Thy soul enjoys the Liberty it lov’d.
    • To these, so mourn’d in death, so lov’d in life,
    • The childless parent and the widow’d wife
    • With tears inscribes this monumental stone,
    • That holds their ashes and expects her own.