SONNET [25] XXV. By the same. Just before his Death. Charlotte Smith (née Turner) 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. N22357 Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806. Elegiac sonnets, and other poems. By Charlotte Smith. The first Worcester edition, from the sixth London edition, with additions. Printed at Worcester [Mass.] by Isaiah Thomas, sold by him in Worcester, and by said Thomas and Andrews in Boston 1795 p. 45. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 25 ] XXV . By the same . Just before his Death . WHY should I wish to hold in this low sphere

May my death remove every obstacle to your happiness . — Be at peace , I intreat you be at peace .

Sorrows of Werter . Volume Second .

' A frail and feverish being ? ' wherefore try Poorly from day to day to linger here , Against the powerful hand of Destiny ? By those who know the force of hopeless care , On the worn heart — I sure shall be forgiv'n , If to elude dark guilt , and dire despair , I go uncall'd — to mercy and to Heav'n ! Oh thou ! to save whose peace I now depart , Will thy soft mind , thy poor lost friend deplore , When worms shall feed on this devoted heart ,

When worms shall feed on this devoted heart , Where e'en thy image shall be found no more . From a line in Roussean's Eloisa .

Where e'en thy image shall be found no more ? Yet may thy pity mingle not with pain , For then thy hapless lover — dies in vain !