[Footnote 1: Supposed to be Percy.]

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END OF JOHNSON'S POEMS.

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THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

THOMAS PARNELL.


TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD AND EARL MORTIMER.

Such were the notes thy once-loved poet sung,
Till Death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.
Oh, just beheld, and lost! admired, and mourn'd!
With softest manners, gentlest arts adorn'd,
Blest in each science, blest in every strain,
Dear to the Muse, to Harley dear--in vain!

For him, thou oft hast bid the world attend,