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ON THE MONUMENT OF THE HON. R. DIGBY AND OF HIS SISTER MARY ERECTED BY THEIR FATHER, LORD DIGBY, IN THE CHURCH OF SHERBORNE, IN DORSETSHIRE, 1727. - 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 THE MONUMENT OF THE HON. R. DIGBY AND OF HIS SISTER MARY

ERECTED BY THEIR FATHER, LORD DIGBY, IN THE CHURCH OF SHERBORNE, IN DORSETSHIRE, 1727.

    • Go! fair example of untainted youth,
    • Of modest Wisdom and pacific Truth:
    • Composed in Suff’rings, and in Joy sedate,
    • Good without noise, without pretension great:
    • Just of thy word, in ev’ry thought sincere,
    • Who knew no wish but what the world might hear:
    • Of softest Manners, unaffected Mind,
    • Lover of Peace, and Friend of humankind!
    • Go live! for Heav’n’s eternal year is thine;
    • Go, and exalt thy Mortal to Divine.
    • And thou, bless’d Maid! attendant on his doom,
    • Pensive hath follow’d to the silent Tomb,
    • Steer’d the same course to the same quiet shore,
    • Not parted long, and now to part no more!
    • Go then, where only bliss sincere is known!
    • Go where to love and to enjoy are one!
    • Yet take these tears, mortality’s relief,
    • And till we share your joys, forgive our grief:
    • These little rites, a Stone, a Verse, receive;
    • ’T is all a Father, all a Friend can give!