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ON A YOUNG LADY WHO DIED UNMARRIED by AARON HILL

Poet Analysis

First Line: RIPE IN VIRTUE, GREEN IN YEARS
Last Line: "AND HIDES HER BLUSHES IN HIS BREAST."
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;
"Ripe in virtue, green in years,
Here a matchless maid lies low:
None could read, and spare their tears,
Did they but her sweetness know.

Humbly wise and meekly good,
No earthly lover's arms she blessed;
But, full of grace, her Saviour wooed,
And hides her blushes in His breast."



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