BRITAIN'S ISLE. ON THE DEATH OF FREDERIC, PRINCE OF WALES. Charles Sackville 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. T116245 1137 K093079.004 Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London printed for G. Pearch 1770 p. 60. 4v. ; 8⁰.

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BRITAIN'S ISLE . ON THE DEATH OF FREDERIC , PRINCE OF WALES . BY THE SAME . WHO but remembers yesterday , Remembers Britain happy , gay ; Each bard inspir'd with sprightlier lays , Already sung Saturnian days : Already Science , hand in hand With Art , had Freedom's temple plann'd . All wore an universal smile ; Such were the hopes of Britain's Isle . But now , since Fate has wrapt in night The nation's and mankind's delight ; Since Frederic now for ever sleeps , Art droops again , and Science weeps ; Corruption ( who had spread her wing , To fly before the patriot King ) Her flight , now doubtful , stops a while — Adieu the hopes of Britain's Isle .