<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451089" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ninth year of his age.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The sweetest, gentlest, of the youthful train,<br>Here lies his clay cold upon the sable bier!<br>He scarce had started on life's varied plain,<br>For dreary death arrested his career. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His cheek might vie with the expanded rose,<br>And Genius sparkled in his azure eyes!<br>A victim so unblemish'd Heaven chose,<br>And bore the beauteous lambkin to the skies. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Adieu thou loveliest child! Adieu adieu!<br>Our wishes fain would follow thee on high.<br>What more can friendship - what more fondness do,<br>But drop the unbidden tear & heave the sigh? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye youths whose ardent bosoms virtue fires,<br>Who eager wish applause and pant for fame,<br>Press round MONTGOMERY'S hearse, the NAME inspires<br>And lights in kindred souls its native flame. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">COLUMBIA grateful hails the tender sound<br>And when MONTGOMERY'S nam'd still drops a tear,<br>From shore to shore to earth's remotest bound<br>Where LIBERTY is known that NAME is dear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Major+Henry+Livingston+Jr.">Major Henry Livingston Jr.</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451089" data-title="An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen de Major Henry Livingston Jr." data-description="An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ninth year of his age. The sweetest, gentlest, of the youthful train, Here lies his clay cold upon the sable bier! He scarce had started on life'..."></div> </div> </div>

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