–Virtuous youth!
Thank Heav’n, I knew thee not–I ne’er shall feel
The keen regret thy drooping friends sustain;
Yet will I drop the sympathizing tear,
And this due tribute to thy memory bring;
Not that thy noble birth provokes my son
(Christopher Anstey)
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