XV. FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. HEROES and KINGS! your distance keep: In peace let one poor Poet sleep, ANOTHER, ON THE SAME. UNDER, this Marble, or under this Sill, Or under this Turf, or e'en what they will; Whatever an Heir, or a Friend in his stead, Or any good creature shall lay o'er my head, Lies one who ne'er car'd, and still cares not a pin What they said, or may say, of the mortal within ; But, who living and dying, serene still and free, Trusts in GOD, that as well as he was, he shall be. Ver. 4. Let Horace] NOTES. "Whose verse adorn'd a tyrant's crimes; And lent th' imperial ruffian aid.” Akenside's Odes, p. 280. 4to. END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Printed by J. F. Dove, St. John's Square. |