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GEORGE AUGUSTUS CLOUGH / A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL, / DIED SUDDENLY OF "STRANGER'S FEVER" / NOV'R 5th 1843 / AGED 22
He died of "Stranger's Fever" when his youth / Had scarcely melted into manhood, so / The chiselled legend runs; a brother's woe / Laid bare for epitaph. The savage ruth / Of a sunny, bright, but alien land, uncouth / With cruel caressing dealt a mortal blow, / And by this summer sea where flowers grow / In tropic splendor, witness to the truth / Of ineradicable race he lies.
The law of duty urged that he should roam, / Should sail from fog and chilly airs to skies / Clear with deceitful welcome. He had come / With proud resolve, but still his lonely eyes / Ached with fatigue at never seeing home.