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TO THE MEMORY OF HENRY KIRK WHITE by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON

First Line: IN YON LONE VALLEY WHERE THE CYPRESS SPREADS
Last Line: LIKE HIM THEY DROOP, LIKE HIM UNTIMELY DIE.
Subject(s): WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806);

In yon lone valley where the cypress spreads
Its gloomy, dark, impenetrable shades
The mourning Nine , o'er White's untimely grave
Murmur their sighs, like Neptune's troubled wave.
There sits Consumption, sickly, pale, and thin,
Her joy evincing by a ghastly grin;
There his deserted garlands with'ring lie,
Like him they droop, like him untimely die.



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