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£ ULOCT TO TilE MEMORY OF THAT EXCELLENT MAN ANJ > |> J $ TriC « , GUISHED PHILANTHROPIST , THE LATE GRA ^ VlLLB SH ^ k ^ , ESQ « ADDRESSED TO A ERIENiK ' . ¦ * - ¦• " ¦ ¦ ¦ , *
Why mourns my friend , in sorrow ' s deepest gtooixi ; Wby heaves bis bosom with such poignant grief ? That matchless merit sinks into the ' tom ' b'i-Painful to us the change , to him relief . Shall worth like his into the grave descead , Without the tribute of one parting lay ; Shall Sharp ! so long of all mankind the friericf , ' UnhonourM leave us , for the reahns of < Tay ? No : every Virtue round thy bier shall tfeep , . ^ > And Britain ' s sons partake a gen e ral si g h ; The sable . children of the western deep , "' ' " 3 * Shall join in sorrow , with a widow * ** cry- ^ ¦ • . ¦ . >< .. . _• • > . < * . - < ¦> 11 .
That lost forever , is that holy flame t ^ a ^ a Which nerv'd thy arm , andstyung thy pow ' rfai tongue , v . + \ . T' inffpe 9 . ch Oppression ' s ever guilty name , And plead the freeman ' s righ ts ,- ^ fh ^^ a ^ tive ^^ wi ^ llg ^ |
Thy Genius pierced first , the darkspjDpie ^| f ^ ^ Where groaning Africa despairing l ^ y ^^^ J $ a \ Her woes , unthought of , met Bptaj U ^' s ij gh ^ ^ ' ^' God said , Let Sharp existJ * apd ^ 11 was davl > Ior slept thy arm , through many a coi ^ i . ijt 41 rp , t ^ With pallid Avarice it long maintaia *^ 'I .
Till senates witnessed the consuming fire . , Of Truth ; and lust and cruelty we ^ e b 6 | h " eiutli 4 in d . Nor Slavery shall escape thy deadl yj blow ^ j "^ To Error ' s reign a loud ^ alaifP ^ , is 8 ^ ' ^^ nLtl Freedom's the right of ey ' ry luan Vfc !? j |( je { , Cofivtcdoft travels like the l « fetf t * j ^ Piiiiiie " In youth , thy miod eoric ]^ d f ^^ J ^ ql ^ ljl& fl ^ « -T ^ utb for its guMe * . benpyple ^ c ^ Its i jyjK ; , v Proved Justice to b ^ Law : nf ^ r lrWy& ; T $ x X \ 11 Could intei-c ^ ptfrona . thee , the wrea ^^ V $ S $ f '
• " ¦' ' ' •' ¦ ¦ ' ^* ' **¦ ** ' : ^ U * Cr * t- Umfnre Lord Manafitit 4 , in thf Qqv >> t of King s P ^ nch . u » , i 77 a , ' wpicTt tnw ontamw
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/36/
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