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ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN
1 The veil of night was drawn aside,
2 The sky was beaming red;
3 In youth and health's luxuriant pride
4 Ross lightly left his bed.
5 He call'd his dog — he seiz'd his gun —
6 He flew to yonder plain,
7 Elated with the rising sun,
8 But ne'er return'd again.
9 "In luck," — he cries, "I've shot my bird" —
10 He stops — and pants for breath —
11 He never spoke another word,
12 But clos'd his eyes in death.
[Page 11]13 An Angel mark'd him from his birth;
14 And, when the doom was given,
15 Did crop the sweetest bud on earth
16 To bloom and blow in heaven!
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Author: Rebekah Carmichael (later Hay)
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Carmichael, Miss (Rebekah) (fl. 1790-1806). Poems. Edinburgh: Peter Hill, 1790, pp. 10-11. 92p. (ESTC T104666) (Page images digitized from a copy at University of California Libraries — third-party rights apply.)
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Other works by Rebekah Carmichael (later Hay)
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- AN ELEGY ()
- THE EMPTY PURSE ()
- EPIGRAM ()
- EPIGRAM ()
- AN EPITAPH ()
- EPITAPH ()
- A HYMN ()
- THE ILL-FATED LOVER ()
- THE LOVE-LORN MAID ()
- A NIGHT SCENE ()
- ON A LADY ()
- ON A LATE DISTURBANCE IN THE THEATRE ()
- ON A REAL INSTANCE OF DISINTERESTED FRIENDSHIP ()
- ON A YOUNG GENTLEMAN's RETURN FROM JAMAICA ()
- ON A YOUNG LADY ()
- ON A YOUNG LADY, WHO ASKED A NECKLACE OF A GENTLEMAN's HAIR, AND WAS REFUSED ()
- ON MR ****** ()
- ON MR ****** ACTOR ()
- ON RECEIVING A POT OF THYME ()
- ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTH-DAY ()
- ON THE BIRTH-DAY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN THE EAST INDIES ()
- ON THE FATE OF CAPTAIN G***** ()
- ON THE ST BERNARD'S CANARY BIRDS ()
- ON THE STUMP OF AN OLD TREE ()
- A REQUEST ()
- A ROMANTIC SCENE Which happened in the year 1746. ()
- A SONG ()
- A SONG ()
- A SONG ()
- A SONG ()
- A SONG ()
- THE STAR OF EDEN VALE ()
- THE STRUGGLE ()
- A TALE ()
- TO CAPTAIN **** ()
- TO MR ***** ()
- THE TOOTH ()
- THE TWA DOWS ()
- THE VILLAIN's SOLILOQUY ()
- WORDS OF COURSE ()
- WRITTEN IN THE HERMITAGE AT BRAID ()
- WRITTEN IN THE HERMITAGE OF BRAID ()
- A YOUNG LASS's SOLILOQUY ()