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"Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
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Date: 1717, 1736
"Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, / Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage."
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Date: 1717, 1736
"Dim lights of life that burn a length of years, / Useless, unseen, as lamps in sepulchres"
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Date: 1717, 1736
"Like Eastern Kings a lazy state they keep, / And close confin'd in their own palace sleep."
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