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ON EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM WHO DIED IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1735 - 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 EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

WHO DIED IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1735

  • If modest Youth, with cool Reflection crown’d,
  • And ev’ry opening Virtue blooming round,
  • Could save a Parent’s justest Pride from fate,
  • Or add one Patriot to a sinking state,
  • This weeping marble had not ask’d thy tear,
  • Or sadly told, how many hopes lie here!
  • The living Virtue now had shone approv’d;
  • The Senate heard him, and his country lov’d.
  • Yet softer honours and less noisy fame
  • Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham:
  • In whom a race, for Courage famed and Art,
  • Ends in the milder merit of the Heart;
  • And, Chiefs or Sages long to Britain giv’n,
  • Pays the last tribute of a Saint to Heav’n.