SONG. Anne Hunter (née Home) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Hunter, Anne Home (Mrs. John), 1742-1821. Poems, by Mrs. John Hunter. London Printed for T. Payne, Mews Gate, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street 1802 p. 105.

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SONG . THE anguish of my bursting heart Till now my tongue has ne'er betray'd , Despair at length reveals the smart No time can cure , no hope can aid . My sorrows verging to the grave , No more shall pain thy gentle breast ; Think , death gives freedom to the slave , Nor mourn for me when I'm at rest . Yet if at eve you chance to stray Where peaceful sleep the silent dead , Give to your soft compassion way , Nor check the tear by pity shed . Where'er the precious drop may fall , I ne'er can know , I ne'er can see ; And if sad thoughts my fate recall , A sigh may rise , unheard by me .