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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455606" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elegy to the Memory of David Garrick, Esq.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DEAR SHADE OF HIM, who grac'd the mimick scene,<br>And charm'd attention with resistless pow'r;<br>Whose wond'rous art, whose fascinating mien,<br>Gave glowing rapture to the short-liv'd hour! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Accept the mournful verse, the ling'ring sigh,<br>The tear that faithful Mem'ry stays to shed;<br>The SACRED TEAR, that from Reflection's eye,<br>Drops on the ashes of the sainted dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lov'd by the grave, and courted by the young,<br>In social comforts eminently blest;<br>All hearts rever'd the precepts of thy tongue,<br>And Envy's self thy eloquence confess'd. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who could like thee the soul's wild tumults paint,<br>Or wake the torpid ear with lenient art?<br>Touch the nice sense with pity's dulcet plaint,<br>Or soothe the sorrows of the breaking heart? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who can forget thy penetrating eye, <br>The sweet bewitching smile, th' empassion'd look?<br>The clear deep whisper, the persuasive sigh,<br>The feeling tear that Nature's language spoke? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rich in each treasure bounteous Heaven could lend,<br>For private worth distinguish'd and approv'd,<br>The pride of WISDOM,VIRTUE's darling friend,<br>By MANSFIELD honor'dand by CAMDEN lov'd! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The courtier's cringe, the flatt'rer's abject smile,<br>The subtle arts of well-dissembled praise,<br>Thy soul abhorr'd;above the gloss of guile,<br>Truth lead thy steps, and Friendship crown'd thy days. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft in thy HAMPTON's dark embow'ring shade<br>The POET's hand shall sweep the trembling string;<br>While the proud tribute §to thy mem'ry paid,<br>The voice of GENIUS on the gale shall fling. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, SHERIDAN! thy soft melodious verse<br>Still vibrates on a nation's polish'd ear;<br>Fondly it hover'd o'er the sable hearse,<br>Hush'd the loud plaint, and triumph'd in a tear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In life united by congenial minds,<br>Dear to the MUSE, to sacred friendship true;<br>Around her darling's urn a wreath SHE binds,<br>A deathless wreathimmortaliz'd by YOU! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But say, dear shade, is kindred mem'ry flown?<br>Has widow'd love at length forgot to weep?<br>That no kind verse, or monumental stone,<br>Marks the lone spot where thy cold relics sleep! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear to a nation, grateful to thy muse,<br>That nation's tears upon thy grave shall flow,<br>For who the gentle tribute can refuse,<br>Which thy fine feeling gave to fancied woe? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou who, by many an anxious toilsome hour,<br>Reap'd the bright harvest of luxuriant Fame,<br>Who snatch'd from dark oblivion's barb'rous pow'r<br>The radiant glories of a SHAKSPERE's name! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rembrance oft shall paint the mournful scene<br>Where the slow fun'ral spread its length'ning gloom,<br>Where the deep murmur, and dejected mien,<br>In artless sorrow linger'd round thy tomb. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And tho' no laurel'd bust, or labour'd line,<br>Shall bid the passing stranger stay to weep;<br>Thy SHAKSPERE's hand shall point the hallow'd shrine,<br>And Britain's genius with thy ashes sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then rest in peace, O ever sacred shade!<br>Your kindred souls exulting FAME shall join;<br>And the same wreath thy hand for SHAKSPERE made,<br>Gemm'd with her tears about THY GRAVE SHALL TWINE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Darby+Robinson">Mary Darby Robinson</a><div class=q>
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