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SIR WILLIAM JONES

1746-1794

492                                                Epigram

ON parent knees, a naked new-born child,
Weeping thou sat’st while all around thee smiled;
So live, that sinking to thy life’s last sleep,
Calm thou may’st smile, whilst all around thee weep.

 

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