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HIS POEMS WERE WRITTEN ONLY TO SOOTHE HIS OWN GRIEF: OTHERWISE HE WOULD / HAVE LABOURED TO MAKE THEM MORE DESERVING OF THE FAME THEY HAVE / ACQUIRED.
Had I e'er thought that to the world so dear / The echo of my sighs would be in rhyme, / I would have made them in my sorrow's prime / Rarer in style, in number more appear.