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To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sifter, and a Child of the Name Avis, aged one Year.

ON Death's domain intent I fix my eyes,
Where human nature in vast ruin lies:
With pensive mind I search the drear abode,
Where the great conqu'ror has his spoils bestow'd;

There there the offspring of six thousand years

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In endless numbers to my view appears:
Whole kingdoms in his gloomy den are thrust,
And nations mix with their primeval dud:
Insatiate still he gluts the ample tomb;

His is the present, his the age to come.

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See here a brother, here a sister spread,
And a sweet daughter mingled with the dead.

But, Madam, let your grief be laid aside,
And let the fountain of your tears be dry'd,

In vain they flow to wet the dusty plain,

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Your sighs are wasted to the skies in vain,

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