Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

Written beneath the Historical Print of the wonderful Preservation of Mr. David Bruce, and others his School-fellows, St. Andrews, August 19. 1710.

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"Whilst like the Lamp's last Flame, their trembling Souls / Are on the Wing to leave their mortal Goals."

Six Times the Day with Light and Hope arose,
As oft the Night her Terrors did oppose,
While toss'd on roring Waves the tender Crew
Had nought but Death and Horror in their View:
Pale Famine, Seas, bleak Cold at equal Strife,
Conspiring all against their Bloom of Life:
Whilst like the Lamp's last Flame, their trembling Souls
Are on the Wing to leave their mortal Goals;
And Death before them stands with frightful Stare,
Their Spirits spent, and sunk down to despair.

Light::Lamp Fire::Flame Architecture::Prison::Gaol

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At least 14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1721, 1723, 1724, 1727, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1776, 1780, 1793, 1797, 1800).

Found in ECCO in Miscellaneous Works of that Celebrated Scotch Poet. Allan Ramsay (1724). See Poems by Allan Ramsay (1721, 1723, 1727, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1797, 1800), and Poems on Several Occasions (1776, 1780, 1793, 1794).

The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).

01/19/2006